myrobalanum

Latin[edit]

(Classical) IPA^(key): /my.roˈba.la.num/, [mʏrɔˈbäɫ̪änʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mi.roˈba.la.num/, [miroˈbäːlänum]

myrobalanum n (genitive myrobalanī); second declension

myrobalan fruit
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.98:
  Palma quae fert myrobalanum probatissima in Aegypto. Ossa non habet reliquarum modo in balanis, alvum et menses sistit in vino austero et vulnera conglutinat.
  1938 translation by W.H.S. Jones
  The palm which bears the myrobalanum, found in Egypt, is very highly esteemed. It has no stone in its dates, as other date-palms have. Taken in a dry wine it checks diarrhoea and excessive menstruation, and unites wounds.
myrobalan tree

→ English: myrobalan
→ French: myrobalan (learned)
→ German: Myrobalane
Old French: mirabolan
- Middle French: myrobolan, mirabolan, mirobolan
  - French: myrobolan
- → Catalan: mirabolà
- → Italian: mirabolano
Spanish: mirobálano

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