petroselinum

See also: Petroselinum

Latin[edit]

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

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

petroselīnum n (genitive petroselīnī); second declension

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

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