helenium

See also: Helenium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

helenium (plural heleniums)

1. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus , the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
   • 2016, Nancy J. Ondra, The Perennial Matchmaker: Create Amazing Combinations with Your Favorite Perennials:

     Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way.

Synonyms

• sneezeweed

Further reading

• helenium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• helenium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑλένιον (helénion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /heˈle.ni.um/, [hɛˈɫ̪ɛniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈle.ni.um/, [eˈlɛːnium]

Noun

helenium n (genitive heleniī or helenī); second declension

1. elecampane

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	helenium	helenia
Genitive	heleniī helenī1	heleniōrum
Dative	heleniō	heleniīs
Accusative	helenium	helenia
Ablative	heleniō	heleniīs
Vocative	helenium	helenia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Translingual: Helenium

References

• “helenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• helenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.