asarum

See also: Asarum

English

Noun

asarum (plural asarums)

1. Any plant of the genus Asarum.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἄσαρον (ásaron, “hazelwort”).

Alternative forms

• asari, asaron

Noun

asarum n (genitive asarī); second declension

1. wild nard, hazelwort (Asarum europaeum)

   Synonyms: (in the Middle Ages) vulgāgō, (in the Middle Ages) nardus rusticus, (in the Middle Ages) gariofilus agrestis

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	asarum	asara
Genitive	asarī	asarōrum
Dative	asarō	asarīs
Accusative	asarum	asara
Ablative	asarō	asarīs
Vocative	asarum	asara

Descendants

• → Catalan: ásaro
• → Italian: àsaro
• Mozarabic: اُشْرَه (ušra), آشَرو (āšaro)
  • → Old Catalan: azara, atzaro
    • Catalan: atxari, axari, adzari
  • → Old Spanish: asera
• → 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

Noun

āsārum

1. genitive plural of āsa

References

• “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