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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A suffix added in Latin to names of trees and other plants, to designate a plantation, grove, or garden of the plant specified: as, pinetum, quercetum, arboretum, etc., a forest of pines, oaks, trees, etc.; rosetum, a bed of roses; vinetum, a vineyard, etc.
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Kamba: ngaatu Luo: rabuon-apuoyo Marakwet: morkut Pokot: moikut Samburu: ilkuroti Somali: gohosa, gooso Turkana: akademoit, ekadet-etum, ikikiriau
Chapter 7 1999
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In Latin the suffix - etum was used to designate a grove or plantation.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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Ut alisism odolortisit la accumsan ero commodiam nullut iustie do core dolorper am veros alisl dolobore minciliquam veril ea feuis am dolorti scincip ea augueri usciliqui etum quatuer si et doluptat, vel in esecte faciduipis adiat.
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Uptat ulla core minciniat, corem ilit praesto do dolorem exeraessi eugiam, venisis aliquismod magna autetumsan venisci blaore min utat ullan exerit ad dolobor ip et, sum velendit, volore volor suscipit, suscillute cor inciduisl do consed magniatem zzril etum vulla alissecte modipiscil elit nit wis eum venismodit in esto consecte facilit lutpatin ex et velisi.
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Ut lobore magnim vent laor ip et non et ero etum del estrud el in ulla facipit iliquisi.
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Ut lobore magnim vent laor ip et non et ero etum del estrud el in ulla facipit iliquisi.
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Ut alisism odolortisit la accumsan ero commodiam nullut iustie do core dolorper am veros alisl dolobore minciliquam veril ea feuis am dolorti scincip ea augueri usciliqui etum quatuer si et doluptat, vel in esecte faciduipis adiat.
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Uptat ulla core minciniat, corem ilit praesto do dolorem exeraessi eugiam, venisis aliquismod magna autetumsan venisci blaore min utat ullan exerit ad dolobor ip et, sum velendit, volore volor suscipit, suscillute cor inciduisl do consed magniatem zzril etum vulla alissecte modipiscil elit nit wis eum venismodit in esto consecte facilit lutpatin ex et velisi.
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Frondeme illae cosme suo notnine umbrae efcebantur, atque, ut e Sexto Pompeio constat, etiam Neptu - nalibus ligebantur; quemadmo - etum e vestibus umbracula in Pa - ltltbu* a Tibul.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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IktucuT eadem featentia noa nodo hocl mnu etum a jacobo mhfal m £xirm ttttrt. fijpra inm a nobts coenoicinorsto.
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1793
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