The corpus record — Latin

quernus

quernus · adj

of oaks

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Where it lives

Fasti 4 · 1.28/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.81/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

quernus — Lewis & Short

quernus, a, um, adj.quercus; cf. querneus,

I of oaks, oaken, oak- (poet.): quernas glandes tum stringere tempus, Verg. G. 1, 305: vimen, id. A. 11, 65: stipes, Ov. F. 4, 333: corona, a garland of oak-leaves, id. Tr. 3, 1, 36.

In the wild

quernis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.25.p3
querno Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.369
querno Statius, Thebais 1.583
querno Vergil, Aeneid 11.65
querno Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.342
querno Ovid, Fasti 4.333

6 of 22 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. quernus (scan p. 169; entry #2566). Root candidates: *collo-, *coslo-.

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