hyoscyamus

See also: Hyoscyamus

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

hyoscyamus (countable and uncountable, plural hyoscyamuses or hyoscyami)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Hyoscyamus of henbanes.
2. (medicine) The leaves of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectoral troubles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hyoscyamus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῠ̔οσκῠ́ᾰμος (huoskúamos), from ὗς (hûs, “pig”) +‎ κῠ́ᾰμος (kúamos, “bean”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hy.osˈky.a.mus/, [hyɔs̠ˈkyämʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.oʃˈʃi.a.mus/, [ioʃˈʃiːämus]

Noun

hyoscyamus m (genitive hyoscyamī); second declension

1. henbane

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hyoscyamus	hyoscyamī
Genitive	hyoscyamī	hyoscyamōrum
Dative	hyoscyamō	hyoscyamīs
Accusative	hyoscyamum	hyoscyamōs
Ablative	hyoscyamō	hyoscyamīs
Vocative	hyoscyame	hyoscyamī

Descendants

• → Catalan: jusquiam
• → French: jusquiame
• → Italian: giusquiamo
• → Occitan: jusquiam

References

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