conferva
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See also: Conferva
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin cōnferva. See comfrey.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɜːvə/
Noun[edit]
conferva (plural confervas or confervae or (obsolete) confervæ)
Translations[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conferva”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈfer.u̯a/, [kõːˈfɛru̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfer.va/, [koɱˈfɛrvä]
Noun[edit]
cōnferva f (genitive cōnfervae); first declension
- conferva (a green freshwater alga, formerly regarded as an aquatic plant)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
- consound (common comfrey, Symphytum officinale)
- 300 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium 59.4:
- A Graecis dicitur sinfitum, alii confirma, alii conserva, alii pecte, alii alum Gallicum.
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnferva | cōnfervae |
Genitive | cōnfervae | cōnfervārum |
Dative | cōnfervae | cōnfervīs |
Accusative | cōnfervam | cōnfervās |
Ablative | cōnfervā | cōnfervīs |
Vocative | cōnferva | cōnfervae |
Synonyms[edit]
- (consound): cōnsolida
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “conferva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conferva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 384/1.
- “conferua” on page 398/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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