absinthium
See also: Absinthium
English
Etymology
From Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion).
Pronunciation
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Noun
absinthium (uncountable)
- (now rare) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.][1]
- The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.[2]
- absinthe oil
Translations
Artemisia absinthium — see wormwood
dried wormwood
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absinthe oil — see absinthe oil
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “absinthium”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 9.
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909], →ISBN), page 5
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /abˈsin.tʰi.um/, [äpˈs̠ɪn̪t̪ʰiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈsin.ti.um/, [äbˈsin̪t̪ium]
Noun
absinthium n (genitive absinthiī or absinthī); second declension
- wormwood
- an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
- (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome
- c. 35 CE – 100 CE, Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 3.1.5:
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- But I fear that this book will have too little sweetness and too much wormwood.
- Sed nos veremur ne parum hic liber mellis et absinthii multum habere videatur
- accusative singular of absinthium
- vocative singular of absinthium
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | absinthium | absinthia |
Genitive | absinthiī absinthī1 |
absinthiōrum |
Dative | absinthiō | absinthiīs |
Accusative | absinthium | absinthia |
Ablative | absinthiō | absinthiīs |
Vocative | absinthium | absinthia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → English: absinthe
- → Georgian: აბზინდა (abzinda)
- Dalmatian: ascianz
- → French: absinthe
- → Irish: apsaint
- Italian: assenzio
- Spanish: ajenjo
- → Spanish: absintio
References
- “absinthium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- absinthium 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)
- “absinthium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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