satureia

See also: Satureia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satureia. Compare santoreggia.

Noun

satureia f (plural satureie)

1. summer savory (plant) (Satureja hortensis)
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 217:

     This herb - satureia, was well known to the ancient Romans, particularly the poet Ovid, as a sexual stimulant.

Anagrams

• esaurita

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. See Arabic زَعْتَر (zaʕtar) for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sa.tʊˈreː.ja]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [sa.tuˈrɛː.ja]

Noun

saturēia f (genitive saturēiae); first declension

1. savory, a pot herb

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	saturēia	saturēiae
genitive	saturēiae	saturēiārum
dative	saturēiae	saturēiīs
accusative	saturēiam	saturēiās
ablative	saturēiā	saturēiīs
vocative	saturēia	saturēiae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: santoreggia
• North-Italian:
  • Piedmontese: srèa, srèja, serèa
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: saborea
  • Catalan: sajolida, saborija, sadorija
    • → Spanish: saldorija (Murcian)
  • Old French: sarriee, savereie
    • ⇒ French: sarriette
      • →? Spanish: sarilla
  • Occitan: sadrèia
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: segorella, segurella
  • Portuguese: segurelha
• Borrowings:
  • → Andalusian Arabic: اشترية (aš-šaṭríyya)
    • → Aragonese: xadrea
    • → Spanish: jedrea, ajedrea
  • → Middle English: saverey
    • English: savory
  • → Italian: satureia
  • → Translingual: Satureja
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *saþurejā, *saturejā (see there for further descendants)

References

• “satureia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “satureia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “satureia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “satureia”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 483