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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu).
Pronunciation
Noun
nāpy n (genitive nāpyis); third declension
- mustard, mustard seed
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “napy”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- napy 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)
- napy in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.