carpasum

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Latin

Veratrum album, with which the Latin carpasum has been uncertainly identified

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάρπασον (kárpason, “white hellebore”).

Pronunciation

Noun

carpasum n (genitive carpasī); second declension

  1. an unknown poisonous plant, whose venom was held to be neutralised by a broth of sea-urchins; perhaps European white hellebore (Veratrum album)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative carpasum carpasa
genitive carpasī carpasōrum
dative carpasō carpasīs
accusative carpasum carpasa
ablative carpasō carpasīs
vocative carpasum carpasa

Meronyms

References

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