Artemisia

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills.

Artemisia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.

• (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

• (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

• Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Artemisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Artemisia at USDA Plants database
• Artemisia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsĭ́ā).

• Artemī̆sia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ar.tɛˈmiː.si.a], [ar.tɛˈmɪ.si.a]
• Artemī̆sia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ar.t̪eˈmiː.s̬i.a]
• Hyphenation: Ar‧te‧mi‧si‧a

Artemī̆sia f sg (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension

1. 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)
2. 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)
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 3.75:

     Ut Artemisia illa, Mausoli Cariae regis uxor, quae nobile illud Halicarnasi fecit sepulcrum

     Take the case of Artemisia, the wife of Mausolus, King of Caria, who made that noble sepulchre at Halicarnassus

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3. Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Only the name of the island can take the locative case.

• (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola

• “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)

• Artemisia I on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Artemisia insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la