laserpicium

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English

Alternative forms

lasarpicium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laserpicium.

Noun

laserpicium (uncountable)

silphium resin

Latin

Alternative forms

lāsarpīcium

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laː.serˈpiː.ki.um/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la.serˈpi.t͡ʃi.um/,

Noun

lāserpīcium n (genitive lāserpīciī or lāserpīcī); second declension

resin similar to asafoetida, obtained during Antiquity from an unidentified plant called silphium, probably close to the genus of plants Laserpitium.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with Laserpitium.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia
genitive	lāserpīciī lāserpīcī¹	lāserpīciōrum
dative	lāserpīciō	lāserpīciīs
accusative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia
ablative	lāserpīciō	lāserpīciīs
vocative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

Translingual: Laserpitium

See also

lāsar / lāser

References

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

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