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English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
sisymbrium (plural sisymbriums)
- Any plant of the genus Sisymbrium.
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σισύμβριον (sisúmbrion).
Noun
sisymbrium n (genitive sisymbriī or sisymbrī); second declension
- any plant of the species Mentha aquatica, water mint
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “sisymbrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sisymbrium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers