storax

See also: Storax

English

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin storax.

Noun

storax (countable and uncountable, plural storaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.
2. The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
   • 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iii:

     Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

Anagrams

• taxors

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Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin storax, variant of styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstoː.rɑks/
• Hyphenation: sto‧rax
• Rhymes: -oːrɑks

Noun

storax m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of styrax.

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔräks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈst̪ɔːräks]

Noun

storax m (genitive storacis); third declension

1. alternative form of styrax

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	storax	storacēs
Genitive	storacis	storacum
Dative	storacī	storacibus
Accusative	storacem	storacēs
Ablative	storace	storacibus
Vocative	storax	storacēs

Derived terms

• storacinus