panax

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See also: Panax and panaX

English

Noun

panax (plural panaxes)

(botany) Any plant of the genus Panax.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”). Used for ginseng by Linnaeus owing to its pervasive use in traditional Chinese medicine.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.naks/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.naks/,

Noun

panax m (genitive panacis); third declension

(Classical Latin, Medieval Latin) "allheal": various kinds of medicinal plants
(New Latin) ginseng

Usage notes

The species of the plant is not clear. The seems to have been used by different classical authors to refer to a few different plants: all-heal, Ferulago galbanifera; Aesculapius' all-heal, Echinophora tenuifolia; centaury, Centaurea salonitana; feverfew, Centaurium erythraea; elecampane, Inula helenium; Chiron's all-heal, Mount Olympus Saint John's wort, Hypericum olympicum. Notably none of these are genus Panax.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	panax	panacēs
Genitive	panacis	panacum
Dative	panacī	panacibus
Accusative	panacem	panacēs
Ablative	panace	panacibus
Vocative	panax	panacēs

Related terms

panacea

Descendants

Translingual: Panax

References

“panax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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