gossypium
See also: Gossypium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γοσσύπιον (gossúpion), a borrowing from Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf), كُرْفُس (kurfus), ultimately from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), whence also Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “fabric of cotton”), whence Ancient Greek κάρπᾰσος (kárpasos, “fabric of cotton”), whence carbasus (“fabric of cotton”).
Noun
gossypium n (genitive gossypiī or gossypī); second declension
- cotton wool, cotton
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | gossypium | gossypia |
| Genitive | gossypiī gossypī1 | gossypiōrum |
| Dative | gossypiō | gossypiīs |
| Accusative | gossypium | gossypia |
| Ablative | gossypiō | gossypiīs |
| Vocative | gossypium | gossypia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- gossympinus
Descendants
- English: gossypetin, gossypiboma, gossypol, gossypose
- Translingual: Gossypium
References
- Plin. Nat. 19, 14
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
- Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236
- Parthey, Gustav (1844) Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 563
- “gossypium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers