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holus.

vegetables; cabbage, turnips, greens; kitchen/pot herbs; edible grass (Cal);

5 characters2 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈhɔ.ɫʊs]Classical-Latin[ˈɔː.lus]
  1. vegetable; greens

    declension-3 · neuter
Where this word comes from

From Old Latin helus, from Proto-Italic *helos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰélh₃-s ~ *ǵʰl̥h₃-és, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”) + *-s. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *gulaz (“yellow”).

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