amygdalum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀμύγδαλον (amúgdalon, “almond, almond shaped”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈmyɡ.da.lum/, [äˈmʏɡd̪äɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈmiɡ.da.lum/, [äˈmiɡd̪älum]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
amygdalum n (genitive amygdalī); second declension
- An almond (kernel).
- An almond tree.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | amygdalum | amygdala |
| Genitive | amygdalī | amygdalōrum |
| Dative | amygdalō | amygdalīs |
| Accusative | amygdalum | amygdala |
| Ablative | amygdalō | amygdalīs |
| Vocative | amygdalum | amygdala |
Synonyms
- (almond tree): amygdalus
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: amandel
- Asturian: almendra
- Basque: almendra
- Belarusian: міндаль (mindalʹ)
- Breton: alamandez
- Catalan: ametlla
- Corsican: amandula
- Czech: amygdala, mandle
- Danish: amygdala, mandel
- Dutch: amygdala, amandel
- Old English: āmigdal
- Esperanto: migdalo
- Estonian: mandel
- Faroese: mandel
- Finnish: manteli
- Old French: almande, amande
- Friulian: mandule
- German: Amygdala, Mandel
- Galician: améndoa
- Greenlandic: mandeli
- Hungarian: amigdala, mandula
- Icelandic: mandla, sætmandla
- Indonesian: amigdala
- Irish: almóinn
- Istriot: manduleîna
- Italian: amigdala, mandorla
- Japanese: アーモンド (āmondo)
- Korean: 아몬드 (amondeu)
- Manx: almon
- Norwegian: amygdala, mandel
- Occitan: amètla
- Polish: migdał
- Portuguese: amígdala, amêndoa, mígala
References
- “amygdalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amygdalum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amygdalum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.