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Latin
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σιδηρῖτις (sidērîtis).
Pronunciation
Noun
sidērītis f (genitive sidērītidis); third declension
- The ironwort
- A kind of precious stone
- (mineralogy) The lodestone, a magnet
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Verb
sīderitis
- second-person plural future perfect active indicative of sīdō
Verb
sīderītis
- second-person plural perfect active subjunctive of sīdō
References
- “sideritis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sideritis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.