napy

Latin

Alternative forms

• nāpi, nāpei, nāpe, nāpia, nāpīum, nāpēum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu) (for the variants, compare also σίναπι (sínapi) and νᾱ́πειον (nā́peion)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.py/, [ˈnäːpʏ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.pi/, [ˈnäːpi]

Noun

nāpy n (genitive nāpyos); third declension

1. mustard, mustard seed
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 19.171.5:

     Semen optimum Aegyptium. Athenienses napy appellaverunt, alii th<l>aspi, alii saurion.

   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 27.140.1:

     Alterum thlaspi aliqui Persicon nap<y> vocant, latis foliis, radicibus magnis, et ipsum utile ischiadicorum infusioni.

   • 1531, Johannes Sturm, transl., Claudii Galeni Pergameni Opera, Iam Recens Versa: Quorum Catalogum Proxima Indicabit Pagina., Andreas Cratander, page 106:

     Porrò stercore columbarum nomadum (nam sic eas quidam cognominant, à domesticis uidelicet distinguentes) tanquã medicamento excalfaciente et ipse ad multa frequenter admodum utor, nempe cum femine nasturtij contusum cribratumq́ue siccum uice napyos ad ea quae rubrificari debent adhibens.

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Declension

Only attested in Classical Latin in the nominative/accusative singular form nāpy.

References

• “napy”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• napy 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)
• napy in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “napy”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC