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English
Noun
mandragoras
- plural of mandragora
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension
- mandrake
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
Descendants
References
- “mandragoras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mandragoras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Old Spanish
Noun
mandragoras f pl
- plural of mandragora