Artemisia
See also: artemisia and artemísia
Translingual
Artemisia absinthium
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills.
Proper noun
Artemisia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Artemisia vulgaris (common wormwood, mugwort) - type species; Artemisia absinthium (absinthe), Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood), Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) - selected species; for other species see
Artemisia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Artemisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Artemisia at USDA Plants database
- Artemisia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsíā).
Pronunciation
- Artemī̆sia: (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmiːs̠iä] or IPA(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmɪs̠iä]
- Artemī̆sia: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬iä]
- Hyphenation: Ar‧te‧mi‧si‧a
Proper noun
Artemī̆sia f sg (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension
- Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
- Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
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- Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)
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Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Artemī̆sia |
| Genitive | Artemī̆siae |
| Dative | Artemī̆siae |
| Accusative | Artemī̆siam |
| Ablative | Artemī̆siā |
| Vocative | Artemī̆sia |
| Locative | Artemī̆siae |
Only the name of the island can take the locative case.
Synonyms
- (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola
References
- “Artĕmĭsĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 2 Artĕmīsĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “166/2”
- “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Further reading
- Artemisia I on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
- Artemisia insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la