mandragoras

See also: mandrágoras

English

Noun

mandragoras

1. plural of mandragora

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.raːs/, [män̪ˈd̪räɡɔräːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.ras/, [män̪ˈd̪räːɡoräs]

Noun

mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension

1. mandrake

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mandragorās	mandragorae
Genitive	mandragorae	mandragorārum
Dative	mandragorae	mandragorīs
Accusative	mandragorān	mandragorās
Ablative	mandragorā	mandragorīs
Vocative	mandragorā	mandragorae

Descendants

• → French: mandragore
• Italian: mandragora
• → Old English: mandragora
  • Middle English: mandragora
    • English: mandragora
    • ⇒ Middle English: mandrake, mondrake
      • English: mandrake
• Old French: mandegloire
• → Portuguese: mandrágora
• → Polish: mandragora
• → Serbo-Croatian: mandragora
• → Spanish: mandrágora

References

• “mandragoras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mandragoras 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

Old Spanish

Noun

mandragoras f pl

1. plural of mandragora