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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin alcea.
Pronunciation
Noun
alcea f (plural alcees)
- vervain mallow (Malva alcea)
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀλκέα (alkéa).
Noun
alcea f (genitive alceae); first declension
- vervain mallow (Malva alcea)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “alcea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alcea 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)
- alcea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.