pulegium

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Latin

Alternative forms

pūlēium, pūledium, pullegium, pullēium, pulledium

Etymology

Probably from pūlex (flea), due to its traditional use as a flea repellant.

Noun

pūlegium n (genitive pūlegiī or pūlegī); second declension

pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pūlegium	pūlegia
genitive	pūlegiī pūlegī¹	pūlegiōrum
dative	pūlegiō	pūlegiīs
accusative	pūlegium	pūlegia
ablative	pūlegiō	pūlegiīs
vocative	pūlegium	pūlegia

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

Descendants

Galician: poexo, poenxo, poxo, puexo
Italian: poleggio, puleggio
Portuguese: poejo
Spanish: poleo
→ German: Polei
→ Polish: polej
→ Romanian: polei
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pūlegiolum
- Catalan: poliol
- Old French: puliol
  - French: pouliot
  - → Middle English: puliol, pulliolle, pulial, piliol, pilliol, pileol
    - English: puliol, puliall, puliol royall, puliall royall, pennyroyal (√ pūlēium rēgium)

References

“pulegium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
pulegium 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)
pulegium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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