serpentaria

See also: serpentária

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin [Term?]

Noun

serpentaria (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot ().

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “serpentaria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Noun

serpentaria f (plural serpentarie)

1. dragonroot ()

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Latin

Etymology

From serpēns (“serpent, snake”) +‎ -āria (abstract noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ser.penˈtaː.ri.a/, [s̠ɛrpɛn̪ˈt̪äːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ser.penˈta.ri.a/, [serpen̪ˈt̪äːriä]

Noun

serpentāria f (genitive serpentāriae); first declension

1. snakeweed

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	serpentāria	serpentāriae
Genitive	serpentāriae	serpentāriārum
Dative	serpentāriae	serpentāriīs
Accusative	serpentāriam	serpentāriās
Ablative	serpentāriā	serpentāriīs
Vocative	serpentāria	serpentāriae

References

• “serpentaria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press