alisma

See also: Alisma

English

Noun

alisma (plural alismas)

  1. A water plantain.

Anagrams

French

Noun

alisma f (plural alismas)

  1. alternative form of alisme

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄλισμα (álisma).

Pronunciation

Noun

alisma n (genitive alismatis); third declension

  1. water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative alisma alismata
genitive alismatis alismatum
dative alismatī alismatibus
accusative alisma alismata
ablative alismate alismatibus
vocative alisma alismata

Descendants

  • Translingual: Alisma

References

  • alisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "alisma", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • alisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.