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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, “wormwood, southernwood”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a substrate akin to Akkadian (𒀀)𒈬𒌨𒁲𒉡 ((a)murdennu, “thorned flower”).
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈbro.to.num/,
Noun
abrotonum n (genitive abrotonī); second declension
- southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
References
- “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abrotonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abrotonum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN