zedoarium

Latin

Alternative forms

• zedoāria, zadūra, zaduāra

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic جَدْوَار (jadwār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ze.doˈaː.ri.um/, [d̪͡z̪ɛd̪oˈäːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ze.doˈa.ri.um/, [d̪͡z̪ed̪oˈäːrium]

Noun

zedoārium n (genitive zedoāriī or zedoārī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	zedoārium	zedoāria
Genitive	zedoāriī zedoārī1	zedoāriōrum
Dative	zedoāriō	zedoāriīs
Accusative	zedoārium	zedoāria
Ablative	zedoāriō	zedoāriīs
Vocative	zedoārium	zedoāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: зедоа́рия (zedoárija)
• → English: zedoary
• → French: zédoaire
• → Old High German: zituwar, zitawar
  • Middle High German: zitwar
    • German: Zitwer
    • → Polish: cytwar
      • → Russian: цитва́рь (citvárʹ), цытва́рь (cytvárʹ), цетва́рь (cetvárʹ)
      • → Ukrainian: цитва́рь (cytvárʹ), цетва́рь (cetvárʹ)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: сетвар, цитвар

      Latin script: setvar, citvar

• → Italian: zedoària
• → Portuguese: zedoária
• → Russian: цедоа́рия (cedoárija)
• → Spanish: cedoaria
• → Ukrainian: цедоа́рия (cedoáryja)
• → Middle Low German: seddewer
  • → Old Swedish: siddefär
    • Swedish: sötefära, zåthefer (archaic)
    • >? Swedish: sittver