pulegium
Latin
Alternative forms
- pūlēium, pūledium, pullegium, pullēium, pulledium
Etymology
Probably from pūlex (flea), due to its traditional use as a flea repellant.
Noun
pūlegium n (genitive pūlegiī or pūlegī); second declension
- pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pūlegium | pūlegia |
| Genitive | pūlegiī pūlegī1 | pūlegiōrum |
| Dative | pūlegiō | pūlegiīs |
| Accusative | pūlegium | pūlegia |
| Ablative | pūlegiō | pūlegiīs |
| Vocative | pūlegium | pūlegia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Galician: poexo, poenxo, poxo, puexo
- Italian: poleggio, puleggio
- Portuguese: poejo
- Spanish: poleo
- → German: Poleiminze
- → Polish: polej
- → Romanian: polei
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pūlegiolum
- Catalan: poliol
- Old French: puliol
- French: pouliot
- → Middle English: puliol, pulliolle, pulial, piliol, pilliol, pileol
- English: puliol, puliall, puliol royall, puliall royall, pennyroyal (√ pūlēium rēgium)
References
- “pulegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pulegium 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)
- pulegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette