oleaster

English

Several oleaster fruits of the species Elaeagnus angustifolia growing along a branch.

Etymology

From Middle English oliaster, olyaster, from Latin oleaster.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)

Noun

oleaster (plural oleasters)

1. A plant in the family Elaeagnaceae,
   1. especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus,
      1. especially, the type species Elaeagnus angustifolia.
2. Cultivated olive trees that have re-naturalized, sometimes treated as a species Olea oleaster, the wild olive.

Synonyms

• (Elaeagnus angustifolia): silverberry, Russian olive

Translations

plant in the family Elaeagnaceae, especially, a plant in the genus Elaeagnus, especially, the species Elaeagnus angustifolia

• Arabic: زَيْزَفُون (ar) m (zayzafūn) (as the linden and jujube), خِلَاف m (ḵilāf) (as the willow)
• Aramaic: no classical term is known
• Armenian: փշատ (hy) (pʻšat), փշատենի (hy) (pʻšateni), փշատի (hy) (pʻšati)
• Azerbaijani: iydə (az)
• Bulgarian: миризлива върба f (mirizliva vǎrba)
• Catalan: cínamom m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙棗／沙枣 (shāzǎo)

• Finnish: idänhopeapensas (Elaeagnus angustifolia), hopeapensas (fi) (Elaeagnus), hopeapensaskasvi (fi) (Elaeagnaceae)
• French: chalef (fr)
• Georgian: ფშატი (ka) (pšaṭi)
• German: Ölweide
• Greek: μοσχοϊτιά (moschoïtiá), ελαίαγνος (elaíagnos), τζιτζιφιά (el) (tzitzifiá)
• Hebrew: עֵץ שֶׁמֶן (ʿēr šä́män) (today and Mishnaic)
• Italian: eleagno
• Kalmyk: җигд (jigd)
• Kazakh: жиде (jide)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: gûsinc, sinc (ku)

• Nogai: ийдершик (iyderşik)
• Pashto: سنځله (sandzə́la)
• Persian: سنجد (fa) (senjed)
• Polish: oliwnik m
• Portuguese: oleastro m, olivastro m
• Russian: лох (ru) (lox), лохови́на (ru) (loxovína), лохо́вник (loxóvnik), пшат (ru) (pšat), джида (ru) (džida)
• Turkish: iğde (tr)
• Turkmen: igde

See also

• oil-tree

References

• oleaster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Elaeagnus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Elaeagnus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Further reading

• Oleaster in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• areolets

Latin

Etymology

From ole(a) (“olive tree”) +‎ -aster.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /o.leˈas.ter/, [ɔɫ̪eˈäs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /o.leˈas.ter/, [oleˈäst̪er]

Noun

oleaster m (genitive oleastrī); second declension

1. wild olive tree

Declension

Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	oleaster	oleastrī
Genitive	oleastrī	oleastrōrum
Dative	oleastrō	oleastrīs
Accusative	oleastrum	oleastrōs
Ablative	oleastrō	oleastrīs
Vocative	oleaster	oleastrī

Descendants

• Italian: olivastro, ulivastro
  • → Albanian: ullastër, ullashtër
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: ullastre
• Sicilian: agghiastru
• → English: oleaster
• → Italian: oleastro
• → Spanish: oleastro

References

• “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oleaster”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• oleaster in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.