lilium
See also: Lilium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), probably a corrupted pronunciation of an Egyptian word. Perhaps also the root of Sanskrit हली (halī), हलिनी (halinī, “lily”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
Noun
līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension
- a lily
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | līlium | līlia |
| Genitive | līliī līlī1 |
līliōrum |
| Dative | līliō | līliīs |
| Accusative | līlium | līlia |
| Ablative | līliō | līliīs |
| Vocative | līlium | līlia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: lliri
- English: lily
- French: lis
- Hungarian: liliom
- Irish: lile
- Italian: giglio
- Portuguese: lírio
- Russian: лилия (lilija)
- Serbo-Croatian: ljìljan / љѝљан
- Spanish: lirio
- Translingual: Lilium
References
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lilium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.