petroselinum

See also: Petroselinum

Latin

Alternative forms

• petroselīnon

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pe.tro.seˈliː.num/, [pɛt̪rɔs̠ɛˈlʲiːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.tro.seˈli.num/, [pet̪ros̬eˈliːnum]

Noun

petroselīnum n (genitive petroselīnī); second declension

1. rock parsley

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	petroselīnum	petroselīna
Genitive	petroselīnī	petroselīnōrum
Dative	petroselīnō	petroselīnīs
Accusative	petroselīnum	petroselīna
Ablative	petroselīnō	petroselīnīs
Vocative	petroselīnum	petroselīna

Descendants

• Asturian: perexil
• Friulian: persembul
• Italian: prezzemolo, petroselino
• Neapolitan: petrusino
• Old French: peresil
  • → English: parsley
    • → Japanese: パセリ
    • → Korean: 파슬리 (paseulli)
  • French: persil
  • → Middle Irish: persille
    • Irish: peirsil
    • Scottish Gaelic: pairseil
• Old Occitan: peressil, peiressil, peresilh
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: perrexil
    • Galician: perexil
    • Portuguese: perrexil
  • → Old Spanish: perexil
    • Spanish: perejil
• Romanian: pătrunjel
• Romansch: peterschigl
• Sardinian: pedrusìmula, padrusímula, pedrusèmini, perdusèmene, pedrusímulu
• Sicilian: pitrusinu, puddisinu
• Serbo-Croatian: pȇršin
• Sicilian: pitrusinu
  • → Maltese: tursin
• Venetian: parsèmoło, persémoło, parsìmoƚo
• Walloon: pierzin
• → Proto-West Germanic: *petarsilljā, *petrasilljā, *petarsīlijā, *petrasīlijā (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: פטרוזיליה
• → Hungarian: petrezselyem

References

• petroselinon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• petroselinum in Latin dictionaries at Logeion
• Dvoreckij, I. X. (1976) “petroselīnon”, in Latinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Latin–Russian Dictionary], 2nd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 760a