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English
Noun
asarum (plural asarums)
- Any plant of the genus Asarum.
Latin
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek ἄσαρον (ásaron, “hazelwort”).
Noun
asarum n (genitive asarī); second declension
- wild nard, hazelwort (Asarum europaeum)
- Synonyms: (in the Middle Ages) vulgāgō, (in the Middle Ages) nardus rusticus, (in the Middle Ages) gariofilus agrestis
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
- with baccar, forming apothecary’s Latin asarabacca
Etymology 2
Noun
āsārum
- genitive plural of āsa
References
- “asarum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- asarum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “asarum”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 21
- Fischer-Benzon, Rudolf von (1894) Altdeutsche Gartenflora (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 56
- Simonet, Francisco Javier (1888) Glosario de voces ibéricas y latinas usadas entre los mozárabes (in Spanish), Madrid: Establecimiento tipográfico de Fortanet, page 24