marrubium
See also: Marrubium
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
marrubium (plural marrubiums)
- Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; horehound.
Latin
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marrubium
Etymology
Said to unknown[1], but since it is a bitter plant the first part of it is easily identifiable as the Semitic word for “bitter”, Arabic مُرّ (murr) etc.
Noun
marrubium n (genitive marrubiī); second declension
- horehound, a herb used against respiratory maladies
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | marrubium | marrubia |
| Genitive | marrubiī | marrubiōrum |
| Dative | marrubiō | marrubiīs |
| Accusative | marrubium | marrubia |
| Ablative | marrubiō | marrubiīs |
| Vocative | marrubium | marrubia |
Descendants
- Translingual: Marrubium
- Italian: marrubio
References
- marrubium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- marrubium in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “marrubium”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 43