allium

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English

Allium cepa (common onion)

Etymology

From Latin allium.

Pronunciation

Noun

allium (plural alliums)

  1. Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic.

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

See ālium.

Pronunciation

Noun

allium n (genitive alliī or allī); second declension

  1. late form of ālium (found since 1st century CE)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative allium allia
genitive alliī
allī1 		alliōrum
dative alliō alliīs
accusative allium allia
ablative alliō alliīs
vocative allium allia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

  • “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • allium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “allium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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