boletus

See also: Boletus

English

boletus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bōlētus.

Noun

boletus (plural boletuses or boleti)

1. An edible mushroom of genus Boletus.

Synonyms

• bolete, porcini, cep

Translations

a type of edible mushroom — see also porcini

• Czech: hřib (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: kivipuravik (et), puravik
• Finnish: kivitatti (fi)
• German: Dickröhrling m
• Hungarian: vargánya (hu), tinóru (hu)
• Lithuanian: baravykas m
• Polish: borowik (pl) m
• Russian: борови́к (ru) m (borovík)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вр̀га̄њ m

  Latin: vr̀gānj (sh) m

Anagrams

• Boulets

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βωλίτης (bōlítēs)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /boːˈleː.tus/, [boːˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /boˈle.tus/, [boˈlɛːt̪us]

Noun

bōlētus m (genitive bōlētī); second declension

1. porcini, an edible kind of mushroom (the most valued kind)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bōlētus	bōlētī
genitive	bōlētī	bōlētōrum
dative	bōlētō	bōlētīs
accusative	bōlētum	bōlētōs
ablative	bōlētō	bōlētīs
vocative	bōlēte	bōlētī

Derived terms

• bōlētāria

Descendants

• Aromanian: bureati, buburec
• Catalan: bolet
• English: bolete, boletus
• French: bolet
• Italian: boleto
• Romanian: burete
• Spanish: boleto
• → Proto-West Germanic: *bulit (see there for further descendants)

See also

• fungus

References

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