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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive, ēscāria + -ola, from ēscārius (“edible”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ēscāriola f (genitive ēscāriolae); first declension
- (Late Latin) endive
- 200–400 Hermeneumata Pseudodositheana Leidensia Book 2 sect. Περὶ λαχάνων De oleribus = Corpus glossariorum latinorum III p. 16 l. 37
τρώξιμα escariolae (var. θρώξιμα escariole)- τρώξιμα escariolae
- 800–1000 Codex cassinensis 402 in Corpus glossariorum latinorum V p. 552
Intiua cicorea herba cuius radices multe et tenues sunt ambiunt segetes et necant […] Intiba quę vulgo scariola vocatur- The endive is cichory the roots of which are many and tender and go around what is sown and kill it. Endive which is popularly called scariola
- Synonym: ēscāria
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- Bertoldi, Vittorio (1940) “Esigenze linguistiche del mercato”, in Vox Romanica (in Italian), volume 5, →DOI, page 92
- Fischer-Benzon, Rudolf von (1894) Altdeutsche Gartenflora (in German), Kiel und Leipzig: Lipsius & Tischer, page 105
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “escariola”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 223 Nr. 2914
- “escāriola” in volume 5, part 2, column 856, in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present