antirrhinon

• antirrhīnum, antirrīnum

From the Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ρρῑνον (ăntĭ́rrhīnon, “calf’s snout”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [an.tɪrˈrʰiː.nɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̪.t̪irˈriː.non]

antirrhīnon n (genitive antirrhīnī); second declension

1. snapdragon, antirrhinum, lion’s mouth, lion’s snap, calf’s snout (any plant of the genus Antirrhinum)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.155:

     peristereos adposita in adipe suillo recenti, antirrhinon cum rosaceo et melle.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• (any plant of the genus Antirrhinum): anarrhīnon

• Translingual: Antirrhinum
• English: antirrhinum
• ?Italian: antirrino

• “antirrhīnon (-um)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antirrhīnŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 137/2.
• “antirrīnum” on page 143/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)