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Latin
Etymology
planta (“a sprout”, “a shoot”; “a young tree or shrub that may be transplanted”, “a set”, “a slip”, “a cutting”) + -āgō
Pronunciation
Noun
plantāgō f (genitive plantāginis); third declension
- the plantain, especially the greater plantain (Plantago major)
- (Medieval Latin) a field or other place planted with vines, a vineyard
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “plantāgo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- PLANTAGINES 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)
- plantāgo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,187/3.
- “plantāgō” on page 1,387/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “plantago”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 805/2
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin plantāgō. Compare the inherited doublet tanchagem.
Noun
plantago m or f (plural plantagos)
- plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)
- Synonyms: tanchagem, tansagem, transagem