Artemisia
Translingual
    
    Etymology
    
From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills.
Proper noun
    
Artemisia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.
Hypernyms
    
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe
Hyponyms
    
- (genus): Artemisia vulgaris (common wormwood, mugwort) - type species; Artemisia absinthium (absinthe), Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood), Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) - selected species; for other species see  Artemisia on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia Artemisia on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
    
 Artemisia (genus) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia Artemisia (genus) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
 Artemisia on  Wikispecies.Wikispecies Artemisia on  Wikispecies.Wikispecies
 Artemisia on  Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Artemisia on  Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Artemisia at USDA Plants database
- Artemisia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Latin
    
    Etymology
    
From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsíā).
Pronunciation
    
- Artemī̆sia: (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmiːs̠iä] or IPA(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmɪs̠iä]
- Artemī̆sia: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬iä]
- Hyphenation: Ar‧te‧mi‧si‧a
Proper noun
    
Artemī̆sia f sg (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension
- Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
- Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
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- Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)
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Declension
    
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
| Case | Singular | 
|---|---|
| Nominative | Artemī̆sia | 
| Genitive | Artemī̆siae | 
| Dative | Artemī̆siae | 
| Accusative | Artemī̆siam | 
| Ablative | Artemī̆siā | 
| Vocative | Artemī̆sia | 
| Locative | Artemī̆siae | 
Only the name of the island can take the locative case.
Synonyms
    
- (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola
References
    
- “Artĕmĭsĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 2 Artĕmīsĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “166/2”
- “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Further reading
    
 Artemisia I on the Latin  Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Artemisia I on the Latin  Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
 Artemisia insula on the Latin  Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Artemisia insula on the Latin  Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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