mëgashtër

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *medicaster,[1][2] from Latin medicus (healing, medicine; doctor), whence Albanian mjek (doctor), with the suffix -aster.

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Noun

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mëgashtër f (plural mëgashtra, definite mëgashtra, definite plural mëgashtrat)

  1. (botany) sage (Salvia officinalis)

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References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëgashtër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 258
  2. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “mëgashtër”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 975-976