veratrum

Wikispecies

Borrowed from Latin vērātrum (“hellebore”).

veratrum (plural veratrums)

1. Any of various poisonous herbs of the genus Veratrum

• (herb): corn lily, false hellebore

• veratrine
• veratridine

Unclear: perhaps from vērē (“truly, verily”) +‎ āter (“dull black, dark”), or perhaps related to vērō (“to tell the truth”) on the grounds that it cures people of their mental illness, or perhaps a separate derivation from Proto-Indo-European *wreyt- (“to twist, writhe”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈraː.trũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈraː.t̪rum]

vērātrum n (genitive vērātrī); second declension

1. hellebore

   Synonym: elleborus

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Asturian: beledru
• Catalan: baladre

• “veratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veratrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers