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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λειμώνιον (leimṓnion).
Noun
lēmōnium n (genitive lēmōniī or lēmōnī); second declension
- (wild) beet
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “lemonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lemonium 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)
- lemonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “lemonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers