mandragora

See also: Mandragora and mandrágora

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmænˈdɹæɡ.ə.ɹə/

Noun

mandragora (countable and uncountable, plural mandragoras)

1. Mandrake (genus Mandragora); often specifically mandrake root, traditionally used as a narcotic.
   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 56:

     —though she did not know whether her supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.

   • 1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics‎^[1], published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:

     The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.

2. (fantasy) A kind of tiny dragon immune to fire.

Synonyms

• (mandrake plant): mandrake
• (dragon): mandrake

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mandragŏra.

Noun

mandragora f (plural mandragore)

1. mandrake

   Synonym: mandragola

Latin

Noun

mandragorā

1. ablative/vocative singular of mandragorās

References

• mandragora 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)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• mandragola

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρᾱς (mandragórās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /manˈdɾaɡoɾa/

Noun

mandragora f (plural mandragoras)

1. mandrake
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Et ſu uertud ſe mueſtra contra los otros toſſicos. ſi non contra aquellos que naſcen de tierra. por que ſon de natura frios. aſſi como mandragoras. o bellinno, o otras coſas que ſon daquella natura.

     And its virtue is shown against the other poisons, those that sprout from the earth, because they are cold by nature; such as mandrakes, or henbane or other things of that nature.

Descendants

• Spanish: mandrágora

Polish

mandragora

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /man.draˈɡɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: man‧dra‧go‧ra

Noun

mandragora f

1. mandrake (plant)

   Coordinate term: alrauna

Declension

Declension of mandragora

	singular	plural
nominative	mandragora	mandragory
genitive	mandragory	mandragor
dative	mandragorze	mandragorom
accusative	mandragorę	mandragory
instrumental	mandragorą	mandragorami
locative	mandragorze	mandragorach
vocative	mandragoro	mandragory

Further reading

• mandragora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mandragora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mandrǎɡora/
• Hyphenation: man‧dra‧go‧ra

Noun

mandràgora f (Cyrillic spelling мандра̀гора)

1. mandrake

Declension

Declension of mandragora

	singular	plural
nominative	mandragora	mandragore
genitive	mandragore	mandragora
dative	mandragori	mandragorama
accusative	mandragoru	mandragore
vocative	mandragoro	mandragore
locative	mandragori	mandragorama
instrumental	mandragorom	mandragorama