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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄλῡπον (álūpon).
Pronunciation
Noun
alȳpon n (genitive alȳpī); second declension
- A kind of plant
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
References
- “alypon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alypon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.