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English
Noun
alisma (plural alismas)
- A water plantain.
Anagrams
French
Noun
alisma f (plural alismas)
- Alternative form of alisme
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἄλισμα (álisma).
Pronunciation
Noun
alisma n (genitive alismatis); third declension
- water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- “alisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alisma 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)
- alisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.