lilium
See also: Lilium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian
(ḥrrt, “flower”).
Perhaps also the root of Sanskrit हली (halī), हलिनी (halinī, “lily”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
- Hyphenation: li‧li‧um
Noun
līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension
- a lily
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | līlium | līlia |
Genitive | līliī līlī1 | līliōrum |
Dative | līliō | līliīs |
Accusative | līlium | līlia |
Ablative | līliō | līliīs |
Vocative | līlium | līlia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Related terms
- līlāceus
- līliētum
- līlinus
Descendants
- Ibero-Romance
- Aragonese: lidio
- Asturian: liriu
- Extremaduran: liriu
- Galician: lirio, lis
- Navarro-Aragonese: lirio
- Old Portuguese: liro, lilio
- Portuguese: lírio
- Old Spanish: lirio
- Spanish: lirio
- → Tagalog: liryo
- Spanish: lirio
- Occitano-Romance
- Catalan: lliri
- Occitan: liri, leri, lys, ile, ieli
- Gallo-Romance
- Old French: lis
- Middle French: lis
- French: lis, lys
- Middle French: lis
- Franco-Provençal: lis
- Jersey Norman: lis
- Walloon: li, ri, lis
- Gallo-Italic
- Ligurian: lilìn
- Piedmontese: liri
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: gigliu
- Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
- Italian: giglio
- Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
- Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
- Sicilian: gigghiu
- → Maltese: ġilju
- Venetian: gìłio, xégio, xio
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: gi
- Romansch: gilgia, gelgia
- Germanic
- → Old Dutch: līlia, lilia
- Middle Dutch: lilie, lēlie
- Dutch: lelie
- Afrikaans: lelie
- Dutch: lelie
- Middle Dutch: lilie, lēlie
- → Old English: lilie
- English: lily
- → Malay: lili
- → Indonesian: lili
- → Thai: ลิลลี่ (lin-lîi)
- English: lily
- → Old High German: lilia
- Middle High German: lilje
- German: Lilie
- → Czech: lilie
- → Romanian: lilie
- Yiddish: ליליע (lilye)
- German: Lilie
- Middle High German: lilje
- → Old Norse: lilja
- Danish: lilje
- Faroese: lilja
- Icelandic: lilja
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: lilje
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lilje
- Old Swedish: lilia
- Swedish: lilja
- → Finnish: lilja
- Other
- → Esperanto: lilio
- → Hungarian: liliom
- → Translingual: Lilium
Unsorted borrowings
- → Basque: lilia
- → Bulgarian: лилия (lilija)
- → Cornish: lilien, lili
- → Irish: lile
- → Lithuanian: lelijà
- → Macedonian: лилјан (liljan)
- → Polish: lilia
- → Russian: лилия (lilija)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ljìljan, љѝљан
- → Slovene: lilija
- → Welsh: lili, lilïau
References
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lilium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette