storax
See also: Storax
English
Wikispecies
Wikispecies
Etymology
From Latin storax.
Noun
storax (countable and uncountable, plural storaxes)
- Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.
- The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.
- 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, OCLC 52434902, Act IV, scene iii:
- Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
- Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
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Translations
any member of the genus Styrax
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Anagrams
- taxors
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin storax, variant of styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstoː.rɑks/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sto‧rax
- Rhymes: -oːrɑks
Noun
storax m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of styrax.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔräks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈst̪ɔːräks]
Noun
storax m (genitive storacis); third declension
- alternative form of styrax
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | storax | storacēs |
Genitive | storacis | storacum |
Dative | storacī | storacibus |
Accusative | storacem | storacēs |
Ablative | storace | storacibus |
Vocative | storax | storacēs |
Derived terms
- storacinus
Romanian
Etymology
From French [Term?] or Latin storax.
Noun
storax n (uncountable)
- storax (resin)
Declension
declension of storax (singular only)
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) storax | storaxul |
genitive/dative | (unui) storax | storaxului |
vocative | storaxule |