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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κονίλη (konílē).
Noun
cunēla f (genitive cunēlae); first declension
- A plant, probably oregano or a relative.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kunilā (see there for further descendants)
References
- “cunela”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cunela in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cunela in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.