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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek θυμελαία (thumelaía).
Pronunciation
Noun
thymelaea f (genitive thymelaeae); first declension
- flax-leaved daphne (Daphne gnidium)
- Synonym: cneōron
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “thymelaea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- thymelaea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.