galbanum

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From Latin galbanum (“galbanum”), from Ancient Greek χαλβάνη (khalbánē, “galbanum”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡælbənəm/

galbanum (countable and uncountable, plural galbanums)

1. A bitter, aromatic resin or gum, extracted from plants of the genus Ferula, that resembles assafoetida and has been used in incense and in aromatherapy
   • 1610, Douay–Rheims Bible, Exodus 30:34

     And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.

   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:

     These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benzoin, loadstone, asphaltum.

From Latin galbanum.

• IPA^(key): /ɡal.ba.nɔm/

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galbanum m (plural galbanums)

1. galbanum (resin from plants of the genus Ferula, used to make incense)

• “galbanum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

From Ancient Greek χαλβάνη (khalbánē, “galbanum”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.ba.num/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.ba.num/,

galbanum n (genitive galbanī); second declension

1. galbanum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• galbaneus

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