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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/04/11 04:25 UTC 版)
ilex (plural ilexes or ilices)
Probably from a lost non-Indo-European substrate language.
Many Romance descendants or cognates, such as Italian elce, start with a vowel that is not the regular outcome of Latin long ī, but instead of Latin long ē or short i. A phonetic value like this is attested also in Isidore, who by false etymology associates ilex with ēlectus. According to one hypothesis, such Romance forms descend from an Osco-Umbrian alternative form that started with *ēl-, from earlier *eil- (> classical Latin īl-). Hall 1939 finds this unlikely, and prefers explaining Italian elce by contamination from a descendant of aesculum.
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | īlex | īlicēs |
| genitive | īlicis | īlicum |
| dative | īlicī | īlicibus |
| accusative | īlicem | īlicēs |
| ablative | īlice | īlicibus |
| vocative | īlex | īlicēs |