mandragora

From Medieval Latin mandragora, from Latin mandragorās.

• IPA^(key): /ˌmænˈdɹæɡ.ə.ɹə/

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mandragora (countable and uncountable, plural mandragoras)

1. Any of various plants of the genus Mandragora.

   Synonym: mandrake

2. The root of such a plant, traditionally used as a narcotic.

   Synonym: mandrake

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 56:

     —though she did not know whether her supposed rival was dead or alive, whether the complaints she at once pitied and resented were those which "poppy and mandragora" might medicine, or "those written troubles of the brain" which were incapable of cure, she contrived to make up for herself a draught of most terrible infliction.

   • 1933 January 30, H.L. Mencken, “The Coolidge Mystery”, in H.L. Mencken On Politics‎^[1], published 1996, →ISBN, page 136:

     The worst fodder for a President is not poppy and mandragora, but strychnine and adrenalin.

3. (folklore) A kind of tiny supernatural being, sometimes described as a demon.

   Synonym: mandrake

From Latin mandragŏra.

mandragora f (plural mandragore)

1. mandrake

   Synonym: mandragola

mandragorā

1. ablative/vocative singular of mandragorās

• "mandragora", 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)

From Medieval Latin mandragorās.

mandragora m

1. mandrake

• English: mandrake

• mandragola

From Medieval Latin mandragorās, from Ancient Greek μανδραγόρᾱς (mandragórās).

• IPA^(key): /manˈdɾaɡoɾa/

mandragora f (plural mandragoras)

1. mandrake
   • (Can we date this quote?), (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Et ſu uertud ſe mueſtra contra los otros toſſicos. ſi non contra aquellos que naſcen de tierra. por que ſon de natura frios. aſſi como mandragoras. o bellinno, o otras coſas que ſon daquella natura.

     And its virtue is shown against the other poisons, those that sprout from the earth, because they are cold by nature; such as mandrakes, or henbane or other things of that nature.

• Spanish: mandrágora

• IPA^(key): /man.draˈɡɔ.ra/

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• Rhymes: -ɔra
• Syllabification: man‧dra‧go‧ra

mandragora f

1. mandrake (plant)

   Coordinate term: alrauna

• mandragora in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mandragora in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): /mandrǎɡora/
• Hyphenation: man‧dra‧go‧ra

mandràgora f (Cyrillic spelling мандра̀гора)

1. mandrake

• “mandragora”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025