lilium

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Latin

līlium (a lily)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension

  1. a lily

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative līlium līlia
genitive līliī
līlī1 		līliōrum
dative līliō līliīs
accusative līlium līlia
ablative līliō līliīs
vocative līlium līlia

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

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References

  • “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lilium 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)
  • lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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