basilium

• basilēum

From Ancient Greek βᾰσίλειον (băsíleion, “palace; royal treasure”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ba.sɪˈliː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ba.s̬iˈliː.um]
• Hyphenation: ba‧si‧li‧um

basilīum n (genitive basilīī); second declension

1. A royal or princely ornament; a crown on the statue of Isis.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “basilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• basilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “basilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “basilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin