mezereon

mezereon

See also: mézéréon

English

mezereon

Alternative forms

• mezereum, mezerion

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mezereon, mezereum, from Arabic مَازَرْيُون‎ (māzaryūn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /məˈzɪəriən/

Noun

mezereon (countable and uncountable, plural mezereons)

1. An ornamental shrub, Daphne mezereum, having purple flowers and bright red fruit.

   Synonyms: spurge olive, February daphne

2. The dried bark of this plant, once used as a vesicant.

Translations

shrub

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can Arabic: مَازَرْيُون‎ m (māzaryūn) Azerbaijani: adi canavargiləsi Bashkir: бүре елеге (büre yelege), бүре йүкәһе (büre yükähe) Basque: ereinoztxo Bulgarian: обикнове́но бя́сно дърво́ n (obiknovéno bjásno dǎrvó) Catalan: tintorell m Chechen: please add this translation if you can Czech: lýkovec jedovatý m, lýkovec obecný m Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: rood peperboompje (nl) n Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: näsiä (fi), riidenmarja (fi) French: mézéréon (fr) m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Seidelbast (de) m, Kellerhals m Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: farkasboroszlán (hu) Kalmyk: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Kumyk: please add this translation if you can Latin: mezereon, mezereum n Latvian: parastā zalktene f Lithuanian: paprastasis žalčialunkis m Persian: مازریون‎ (fa) (mâzaryun), هفت برگ‎ Polish: wawrzynek wilczełyko m Portuguese: mezereão m Romanian: tulichină (ro) f Russian: волчея́годник обыкнове́нный m (volčejágodnik obyknovénnyj), во́лчник обыкнове́нный (vólčnik obyknovénnyj), во́лчье лы́ко (ru) n (vólčʹje lýko) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: о̀бичнӣ ли̏ковац m Latin: òbičnī lȉkovac m Slovak: lykovec jedovatý m Slovene: navádni volčín m Spanish: mezereón m Tatar: please add this translation if you can Turkish: mezeryon Welsh: bliwlys f

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Latin

mezereon

mezereon

Alternative forms

• almezereon, mezereum

Etymology

From Arabic مَازَرْيُون‎ (māzaryūn).

Noun

mezereon n (indeclinable)

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) mezereon, spurge-olive (Daphne mezereum)
   • 1317, Matthaeus Silvaticus, Opus Pandectarum Medicinae, Venice, published 1540 ^GB, page 45:

   • a. 1561, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ Græcorum ac Arabum clarissimi medici Opera quae extant omnia, Venice, published 1561, page 2 of fol. 462:

   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 140:

   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 177:

   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 198:

Descendants

• → Translingual: Daphne mezereum
• → English: mezereon, mezereum
• → French: mézéréon
• → Portuguese: mezereão
• → Spanish: mezereón