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English
Etymology
From Latin amarantus.
Noun
amarantus
- amaranth (rare, formal)
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀμάραντος (amárantos, “unfading”).
Pronunciation
Noun
amarantus m (genitive amarantī); second declension
- amaranth
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
Further reading
- “amarantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amarantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amarantus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “amarantus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray