abrotonum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, wormwood, southernwood), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a substrate akin to Akkadian (𒀀)𒈬𒌨𒁲𒉡 ((a)murdennu, thorned flower).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈbrɔ.tɔ.nũː]

Noun

abrotonum n (genitive abrotonī); second declension

  1. southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative abrotonum abrotona
genitive abrotonī abrotonōrum
dative abrotonō abrotonīs
accusative abrotonum abrotona
ablative abrotonō abrotonīs
vocative abrotonum abrotona

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: abrotano
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: aureul
    • Venetan: ambrógano
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: abroigne, abrogne
      • Middle French: auroine, aurone, auronie, aurosne, auronde
      • Norman: vrogne
      • Breton: afronenn
      • Middle Dutch: averone, aefrug
        • Dutch: averoen
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • párdamu
  • Ancient borrowings:
  • Learned borrowings:

References

  • abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abrotonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • abrotonum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN