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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄσκυρον (áskuron).
Pronunciation
Noun
ascyron n (genitive ascyrī); second declension
- A plant, St. John's wort
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
Synonyms
References
- “ascyron”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ascyron in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.