wormwood

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Etymology

From Middle English wormwode, a folk etymology (as if worm + wood) 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

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Noun

wormwood ‎(plural wormwoods)

1. An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, 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

Derived terms

• common wormwood
• tree wormwood
• wormwood hare

Translations

Artemisia absinthium

• Albanian: pelin i zi ?
• Arabic: حَبَق اَلرَّاعِيّ m ‎(ḥabaq ar-rāʿiyy)

  Moroccan Arabic: شْيبة f ‎(šiba)

• 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)
• Esperanto: absinto (eo)
• 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: αψιθιά (el) f ‎(apsithiá), αρτεμισία (el) f ‎(artemisía)

  Ancient: ἀψίνθιον n ‎(apsínthion)

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

  Middle Irish: mormónt m

• Italian: assenzio (it) m
• Japanese: 苦蓬 ‎(nigayomogi)
• Maori: taru kawa
• Middle English: wormwode
• Norman: lianne f (Jersey), hèrbe à puches f (Jersey), absînthe f (Jersey)
• Korean: 향쑥 ‎(hyang ssuk)
• Macedonian: пелин m ‎(pélin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: malurt m

  Nynorsk: malurt m

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

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

  Roman: pelen (sh) m (Bosnian, Serbian), pelin (sh) 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
• Tagalog: ahenho
• Tashelhit: ⵛⵉⴱⴰ f ‎(šiba)
• Thai: โกฏจุฬาลำพา ‎(kot chulaalamphuaua)
• Turkish: pelin
• Ukrainian: поли́н m ‎(polýn)
• Vietnamese: ngải cứu (vi)
• Walloon: foirt (wa) m, absinte (wa) f

that which causes bitterness

• French: fiel (fr) m, amertume (fr) f
• Greek: χολή (el) f ‎(cholí)
• Portuguese: amargura (pt) f

• Russian: го́речь (ru) f ‎(górečʹ), жёлчь (ru) f ‎(žolčʹ), желчь (ru) f ‎(želčʹ), раздражи́тельность (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