tamarix
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin tamarix. Doublet of tamarisk.
Noun
tamarix (plural tamarixes)
- tamarisk
- 1912 July, Wisconsin Horticulture, volume 2, number 11, Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, LCCN 17000341, OCLC 1770028, page 5:
- This tamarix combines delightfully when in bloom with the Russian olive. There is an artistic group nearby, where a crabtree and a Russian olive stand on a hilltop with blue sky for a background, behind a tamarix in full bloom of delicate pink and feathery gray green.
- 1913, Marcel E. Hardy, An Introduction to Plant Geography (Oxford geographies), Clarendon Press, LCCN 14011522, OCLC 1166595983, page 177:
- The high plateau of Iran, screened by the higher rims of Elburz and Khorassan from the north winds, is swept by dry icy gales and exposed to great extremes of temperature. There the high treeless steppe of short grass surrounds arid depressions or salt-pans with the usual carpet of low, fleshy salt-bushes and heaths of tamarixes.
- 1941, Bulletin - Agricultural Experiment Station, volume 284, New Mexico State University, OCLC 1436793, page 24:
- The tamarixes are not only valuable for their fine-textured foliage but they also flower abundantly in colors of pink or lavender.
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Latin
Alternative forms
- thamarīx
Etymology
Unknown, but considered a loan word. Often connected to the Celtic river Tamaris (“the river Tambre”) and the tribe Tamaricī that dwelt there.
Since the fruits of various Tamarix species have been used extensively to avail soul and body as manna and كَزْمَازَج (kazmāzaj) by the Eastern peoples and – speaking of the Iberian which coast has been colonized by speakers of Semitic languages – Afroasiatics held a considerable part of the Mediterranean coastlines where the tamarisk could be encountered, it may also be a derivation of a cognate of Arabic ثَمَر (ṯamar, “fruits”), however not from Phoenician in so far as the corresponding first consonant would be 𐤔 (š), but from Aramaic where it is ת (t) or from a less known relative.
However it is apt to connect the Ancient Greek designation for the tamarisk, μυρίκη (muríkē). It seemingly contains the same suffix while only the Latin begins with a separable formans, perhaps the Late Egyptian definite article tꜣ (/tə/, “the”), or Berber where ta- forms feminine singulatives. Compare myrīcē.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈta.ma.riːks/, [ˈt̪ämäriːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈta.ma.riks/, [ˈt̪äːmäriks]
Noun
tamarīx f (genitive tamarīcis); third declension
- tamarisk
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | tamarīx | tamarīcēs |
| Genitive | tamarīcis | tamarīcum |
| Dative | tamarīcī | tamarīcibus |
| Accusative | tamarīcem | tamarīcēs |
| Ablative | tamarīce | tamarīcibus |
| Vocative | tamarīx | tamarīcēs |
Descendants
- Catalan: tamariu
- Italian: tamerice
- Translingual: Tamarix
- Spanish: tamariz
References
- “tamarix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “tamarix”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 676a
- Schuchardt, Hugo (1909), “Zur Wortgeschichte: 1. Lat. buda; tamarix; mlat. tagantes”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (in German), volume 33, Halle: Max Niemeyer, page 351
- Schuchardt, Hugo (1918) Die romanischen Lehnwörter im Berberischen (Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Akademie der Wissenschaften; 188, IVth treatise) (in German), Wien: In Kommission bei Alfred Hölder, page 16
Romanian
Noun
tamarix m (uncountable)
- Alternative form of tamariscă
Declension
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| m gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tamarix | tamarixul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tamarix | tamarixului |
| vocative | tamarixule | |