acrocorium
Latin
Etymology
Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.
Pronunciation
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.kroˈko.ri.um/, [äkroˈkɔːrium]
Noun
acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension
- (Medieval Latin, hapax) dill
Further reading
- “acrŏcŏrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press