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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Koine Greek καφουρά (kaphourá), of Austronesian origin.
Pronunciation
Noun
caphūra f (genitive caphūrae); first declension
- (Renaissance Latin, New Latin) camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora)
1536, Jean Ruel, chapter 26, in De Natura Stirpium, page 102:Caphura (ut Aetius posteritatis memoriae prodidit) arbor in India tanta magnitudine uisitur, ut sub eius umbra hominum centuriae condi possint.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1601, Carolus Clusius, chapter 9, in Rariorum Plantarum Historia, page 161:Est vero caphura nobile medicamentum (cuius nec Galenus, nec quisquam veterum Graecorum meminit, praeter Aetium e recentioribus, tametsi Serapionis vulgata exemplaria Dioscoridis auctoritatem citent, falso tamen) duorum generum, caphura videlicet de Burneo, & quae ex Sina advehitur.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1697, Friedrich Cronberg, Dissertatio inauguralis medica, de caphura, page 8:Et hoc modo caphura colligitur ex arbore Borneensi, cuius maturitatem Incolae explorare solent auribus sub solis ortum trunco admotis, […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First-declension noun.