centaurie

From Medieval Latin centaurēa; compare English centaury. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. via what route?

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centaurie f (uncountable)

1. a knapweed, starthistle, centaury; any plant of the genus Centaurea

• centaurie on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From Medieval Latin centaurēa, centauria, from Latin centaurēum, centaurion, from Ancient Greek κενταύρειον (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”). Compare Dutch centaurie.

centaurie f

1. the herb centaury

Weak feminine (n-stem):

• English: centaury

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “centaurie”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.