solanum

From the genus name.

solanum (plural solanums)

1. (botany) Any plant in the genus Solanum.
2. (East Africa) A traditional green vegetable in the genus Solanum, specifically Solanum nigrum, and sometimes Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum scabrum, and Solanum villosum.

• monauls

First used by Pliny. Possible etymologies include:

• sōl (“sun”) +‎ -ānus
• sōlor (“to comfort, soothe”) +‎ -nus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [soːˈɫaː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [soˈlaː.num]

sōlānum n (genitive sōlānī); second declension

1. a plant: nightshade

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “solanum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "solanum", 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)