mandragora
See also: Mandragora and mandrágora
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.
Pronunciation
Noun
mandragora (countable and uncountable, plural mandragoras)
- Mandrake (genus Mandragora); often specifically mandrake root, traditionally used as a narcotic.
- 1842, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Lady Anne Granard, volume 2, page 56:
- —though she did not know whether her supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.
- 1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics[1], published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:
- The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.
- A kind of tiny dragon immune to fire.
Synonyms
Italian
Etymology
From Latin mandragŏra.
Noun
mandragora f (plural mandragore)
- mandrake
- Synonym: mandragola
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) mandragorā
References
- mandragora 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)
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρᾱς (mandragórās).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandragora f (plural mandragoras)
- mandrake
- (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Et ſu uertud ſe mueſtra contra los otros toſſicos. ſi non contra aquellos que naſcen de tierra. por que ſon de natura frios. aſſi como mandragoras. o bellinno, o otras coſas que ſon daquella natura.
- And its virtue is shown against the other poisons, those that sprout from the earth, because they are cold by nature; such as mandrakes, or henbane or other things of that nature.
Descendants
- Spanish: mandrágora
Polish
Pronunciation
Noun
mandragora f
- mandrake (plant)
Declension
Declension of mandragora
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mandragora | mandragory |
genitive | mandragory | mandragor |
dative | mandragorze | mandragorom |
accusative | mandragorę | mandragory |
instrumental | mandragorą | mandragorami |
locative | mandragorze | mandragorach |
vocative | mandragoro | mandragory |
Further reading
- mandragora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- mandragora in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Noun
mandràgora f (Cyrillic spelling мандра̀гора)
Declension
Declension of mandragora
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mandragora | mandragore |
genitive | mandragore | mandragora |
dative | mandragori | mandragorama |
accusative | mandragoru | mandragore |
vocative | mandragoro | mandragore |
locative | mandragori | mandragorama |
instrumental | mandragorom | mandragorama |
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