petroselinum
See also: Petroselinum
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pe.tro.seˈliː.num/, [pɛt̪rɔs̠ɛˈlʲiːnʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pe.tro.seˈli.num/, [pet̪ros̬eˈliːnum]
Noun
petroselīnum n (genitive petroselīnī); second declension
- rock parsley
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | petroselīnum | petroselīna |
| Genitive | petroselīnī | petroselīnōrum |
| Dative | petroselīnō | petroselīnīs |
| Accusative | petroselīnum | petroselīna |
| Ablative | petroselīnō | petroselīnīs |
| Vocative | petroselīnum | petroselīna |
Descendants
- Asturian: perexil
- Dutch: peterselie
- English: parsley
- Finnish: persilja
- French: persil
- Friulian: persembul
- Galician: perexil
- German: Petersilie
- Hebrew: פטרוזיליה
- Hungarian: petrezselyem
- Irish: peirsil
- Italian: prezzemolo
- Maltese: tursin
- Neapolitan: petrusino
- Old Occitan: peressil, peiressil, peresilh
- Portuguese: perrexil
- Romanian: pătrunjel
- Romansch: peterschigl
- Sardinian: pedrusìmula, padrusímula, pedrusèmini, perdusèmene, pedrusímulu
- Serbo-Croatian: peršin, pȇršin
- Sicilian: pitrusinu
- Spanish: perejil
- Venetian: parsèmoło, persémoło, parsìmoƚo
- Walloon: pierzin
References
- “petroselinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Dvoreckij, I. X. (1976) “petroselīnon”, in Latinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Latin–Russian Dictionary], 2nd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 760a