wormwood

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English wormwode, alteration of wermode (“wormwood”), from Old English wermōd, wormōd (“wormwood, absinthe”), from Proto-Germanic *wermōdaz (“wormwood”). Cognate with Middle Low German wermode, wermede (“wormwood”), German Wermut (“wormwood”). See vermouth.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwə(ɹ)m.wʊd/
• (US)

  wormwood

  (file)

Noun

wormwood (plural wormwoods)

1. (botany) An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
   • (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene iii (the nurse's monologue).

     But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! /

2. Anything that causes bitterness or affliction.

Synonyms

• (botany): artemisia, grande wormwood, mugwort, absinthe, Artemisia pontica (obsolete)

Derived terms

• common wormwood
• tree wormwood
• wormwood hare

Translations

Artemisia absinthium

• Albanian: pelin i zi ?
• Arabic: حَبَق الرّاعِي m (ħábaq ar-rāʕi)
• Asturian: axenxu m
• Bashkir: әрем (ärem)
• Basque: asentsio
• Belarusian: палын f (palýn)
• Bulgarian: пелин (bg) m (pelin)
• Catalan: donzell m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苦艾 (zh) (kǔ'ài), 中亞苦蒿, 中亚苦蒿 (Zhōngyǎ kǔhāo)

• Czech: pelyněk (cs) m, pelyněk pravý (cs) m
• Danish: malurt c
• Dutch: alsem (nl) m
• Erzya: шурьма (šurʹma)
• Estonian: koirohi
• Finnish: koiruoho (fi), mali (fi)
• French: armoise (fr) f, absinthe (fr) f
• Galician: absintio (gl) m, asento m, asente (gl) m
• German: Wermut (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion) (apsinthion) n

  Modern: αψινθιά (el) f (apsinthiá), αψιθιά (el) f (apsithiá), αρτεμισία (el) f (artemisía)

• Hebrew: ארטימיסיה f (artimisía), לענה (he) f (la'ana)
• Hungarian: fehér üröm
• Interlingua: absinthio
• Irish: mormónta m

• Italian: assenzio (it) m
• Japanese: 苦蓬 (nigayomogi)
• Jèrriais: lianne f, hèrbe à puches f, absînthe f
• Korean: 향쑥 (hyang ssuk)
• Macedonian: пелин m (pélin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malurt m

  Nynorsk: malurt m

• Ojibwe: moosewijiibik, moose-ojiibik
• Persian: افسنطین (fa) (afsentin)
• Polish: piołun (pl) m
• Portuguese: absinto (pt) m
• Romanian: pelin (ro) m
• Russian: полынь (ru) f (polýn')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пелен m (Bosnian, Serbian), пелин m (Croatian)

  Roman: pelen m (Bosnian, Serbian), pelin m (Croatian)

• Slovak: palina f
• Slovene: pelin (sl) m
• Spanish: ajenjo (es) m, absintio (es) m, alosna f
• Swedish: malört (sv) c, äkta malört c
• Thai: โกฏจุฬาลำพา (kot chulaalamphuaua)
• Turkish: pelin
• Ukrainian: полин (polýn)
• Vietnamese: ngải cứu (vi)

that which causes bitterness

• French: fiel (fr) m, amertume (fr) f
• Greek: χολή (el) f (cholí)
• Portuguese: amargura (pt) f
• Russian: горечь (ru) f (górečʹ), жёлчь (ru) f (žolčʹ), желчь (ru) f (želčʹ), раздражительность (ru) f (razdražítelʹnostʹ)

• Slovene: pelin (sl) m
• Spanish: amargor (es) m, amargura (es) f, mortificación f

External links

• Artemisia absinthium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Artemisia absinthium
• Artemisia absinthium on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Artemisia absinthium
•  Artemisia absinthium on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons: Artemisia absinthium

Anagrams

• woodworm