conium

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See also: Conium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

conium (plural coniums)

  1. Any of the species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.

Synonyms

Translations

Conium — see hemlock

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κώνειον (kṓneion).

Pronunciation

Noun

cōnīum n (genitive cōnīī); second declension

  1. hemlock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cōnīum cōnīa
Genitive cōnīī cōnīōrum
Dative cōnīō cōnīīs
Accusative cōnīum cōnīa
Ablative cōnīō cōnīīs
Vocative cōnīum cōnīa

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Conium

References

  • “conium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • conium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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