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Polish
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin salvia, from salvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʂaw.vja/
- Rhymes: -awvja
- Syllabification: szał‧wia
Noun
szałwia f
- sage, any plant of the genus Salvia
Declension
Note: etymologically, the declension should follow the pattern for Latinate nouns ending in -ia (see e.g. historia, entalpia), and thus contain geminated i in the genitive, dative, locative and genitive plural. However, the word is highly assimilated, and thus the native feminine declension with single i is also common. Current usage on the Internet seems to favor the geminated i form by around 3:1.
Descendants
Further reading
- szałwia in Polish dictionaries at PWN