abrotonum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, “wormwood, southernwood”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a substrate akin to Akkadian (𒀀)𒈬𒌨𒁲𒉡 ((a)murdennu, “thorned flower”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈbro.to.num/, [äˈbrɔt̪ɔnʊ̃ˑ]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈbro.to.num/, [äˈbrɔːt̪onum]

Noun

abrotonum n (genitive abrotonī); second declension

1. southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abrotonum	abrotona
Genitive	abrotonī	abrotonōrum
Dative	abrotonō	abrotonīs
Accusative	abrotonum	abrotona
Ablative	abrotonō	abrotonīs
Vocative	abrotonum	abrotona

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: abrotano
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: aureul
  • Venetian: ambrógano
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: abroigne, abrogne
    • Middle French: auroine, aurone, auronie, aurosne, auronde
      • French: aurone
    • Norman: vrogne
    • → Breton: afronenn
    • → Middle Dutch: averone, aefrug
      • Dutch: averoen
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: broida
  • Old Occitan: veroina
    • Occitan: broina
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: abrótea, abriota, abroita, abrota, abrótega, abrótiga
  • Portuguese: abrótea
• Sardinian:
  • párdamu
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Danish: abrod
  • → Old English: aprotane
  • → Finnish: aaprotti
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *abrūtā, *abrotā (see there for further descendants)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: abrodd, abrot
  • → Swedish: åbrodd
• Learned borrowings:
  • → Catalan: abròtan
  • → Middle French: abrotone
    • French: abrotone
  • → Norman: abrotone
  • → Portuguese: abrótano
  • → Spanish: abrótano

References

• “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• abrotonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “abrotonum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN