What is the Latin word for coppice, copse?

The usual Latin words for “coppice, copse” are Catullus, uō, silva; also frutex, virgultum, fruticētum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“coppice, copse” in Latin

Catullusa cognomen; a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry uōto put on (clothes etc.); don.silvawood; forest; orchard; grove frutexshrub, bush; trunk (of a tree); blockhead virgultumbushes, thicket, copse, shrubbery, brambles; slips, sets or cuttings; plants fruticētuma grouping of shrubs or bushes, a thicket, covert spīnētuma thicket of thorns, briars, brambles; a thorn hedge vīminētuma willow copse

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

coppice, copse

silva caedua (Catullus, Var., = silva, quae in hoc habetur, ut caedatur; or, according to Servius, quae succisa rursus ex stirpibus aut radicibus renascitur, Gai., Dig., 50, 16, 30). In a less strict sense, frutices: virgulta, plur.; fruticetum, frutetum: spinetum: viminetum [SYN. in THICHET]: locus teneris arboribus et crebris rubis sentibusque obsitus (after Caes., B.G., 2, 17).

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What is the Latin word for coppice, copse?: The usual Latin words for “coppice, copse” are Catullus, uō, silva; also frutex, virgultum, fruticētum. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.