sagapenum

English

Alternative forms

• sagapen

Etymology

From Latin sagapenon, sacopenium.

Noun

sagapenum (countable and uncountable, plural sagapenums)

1. A yellow to brown bitter gum that derives from plants of the genus Ferula.

Translations

bitter gum

• French: sagapénum (fr) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: σαγάπηνον n (sagápēnon)

• Persian: سکبینه sg (sakbīne), سگوینه sg (sagvīne)

See also

• asafetida
• galbanum

Latin

Alternative forms

• sacopēnium
• sagapēnon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σαγάπηνον (sagápēnon), from Arabic سَكْبِينَج (sakbīnaj), from Persian سَكْبِينَهٌ.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa.ɡaˈpeː.num/, [s̠äɡäˈpeːnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa.ɡaˈpe.num/, [säɡäˈpɛːnum]

Noun

sagapēnum n (genitive sagapēnī); second declension

1. sagapenum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sagapēnum	sagapēna
Genitive	sagapēnī	sagapēnōrum
Dative	sagapēnō	sagapēnīs
Accusative	sagapēnum	sagapēna
Ablative	sagapēnō	sagapēnīs
Vocative	sagapēnum	sagapēna

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سكبينج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• “sagapenon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[2] (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 459–460
• sagapenum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.