asarum
See also: Asarum
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]asarum (plural asarums)
- Any plant of the genus Asarum.
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek ἄσαρον (ásaron, “hazelwort”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]asarum n (genitive asarī); second declension
- wild nard, hazelwort (Asarum europaeum)
- Synonyms: (in the Middle Ages) vulgāgō, (in the Middle Ages) nardus rusticus, (in the Middle Ages) gariofilus agrestis
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | asarum | asara |
| genitive | asarī | asarōrum |
| dative | asarō | asarīs |
| accusative | asarum | asara |
| ablative | asarō | asarīs |
| vocative | asarum | asara |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: ásaro
- → Italian: àsaro
- Mozarabic: اُشْرَه (ušra), آشَرو (āšaro)
- → Portuguese: ásaro
- → Spanish: ásaro, asáraca
- with baccar, forming apothecary’s Latin asarabacca
- → Arabic: أَسَرَّة بَقَر (ʔasarra baqar)
- → Old Catalan: atzaravaca, açaravaca, azaravaca
- → English: asarabacca
- → German: Asarabacca
- → Italian: asarabacca, asara baccara
- → Portuguese: asarabácca
- → Spanish: asarabácara, asarabácar, asarrabácar, asarabacca
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]āsārum
References
[edit]- “asarum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “asarum”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21
- Fischer-Benzon, Rudolf von (1894) Altdeutsche Gartenflora (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 56
- Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 24