plantago

See also: Plantago

Latin

Etymology

planta (“a sprout”, “a shoot”; “a young tree or shrub that may be transplanted”, “a set”, “a slip”, “a cutting”) +‎ -āgō

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /planˈtaː.ɡoː/, [pɫ̪än̪ˈt̪äːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /planˈta.ɡo/, [plän̪ˈt̪äːɡo]

Noun

plantāgō f (genitive plantāginis); third declension

1. the plantain, especially the greater plantain (Plantago major)
2. (Medieval Latin) a field or other place planted with vines, a vineyard

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	plantāgō	plantāginēs
Genitive	plantāginis	plantāginum
Dative	plantāginī	plantāginibus
Accusative	plantāginem	plantāginēs
Ablative	plantāgine	plantāginibus
Vocative	plantāgō	plantāginēs

Derived terms

• plantāgium (Mediaeval Latin)

Descendants

• Translingual: Plantago
• Catalan: plantatge
• English: plantain
• French: plantain
• Friulian: plantagn
• Italian: piantaggine
• Occitan: plantatge
• Old Galician-Portuguese: *chantagẽe
  • Galician: chantaxe
  • Portuguese: chantagem, tanchagem, tansagem
• Portuguese: plantago
• Romanian: pătlagină
• Romansch: lantagien
• Sicilian: chiantànija
• Spanish: llantén
• Venetian: piantazen, piantaxene

References

• “plantāgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• PLANTAGINES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plantāgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,187/3.
• “plantāgō” on page 1,387/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “plantago”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 805/2

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plantāgō. Compare the inherited doublet tanchagem.

Noun

plantago m or f (plural plantagos)

1. plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)

   Synonyms: tanchagem, tansagem, transagem