abrotonum

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, “wormwood, southernwood”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly a substrate akin to Akkadian (𒀀)𒈬𒌨𒁲𒉡 ((a)murdennu, “thorned flower”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA(key): /aˈbro.to.num/, [äˈbrɔt̪ɔnʊ̃ˑ]

Noun

abrotonum n (genitive abrotonī); second declension

  1. southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative abrotonum abrotona
Genitive abrotonī abrotonōrum
Dative abrotonō abrotonīs
Accusative abrotonum abrotona
Ablative abrotonō abrotonīs
Vocative abrotonum abrotona

Descendants
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: abrotano
  • Padanian:
    • Piedmontese: aureul
    • Venetian: ambrógano
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: abroigne, abrogne
      • Middle French: auroine, aurone, auronie, aurosne, auronde
      • Norman: vrogne
      • → Breton: afronenn
      • → Middle Dutch: averone, aefrug
        • Dutch: averoen
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
  • Sardinian:
    • párdamu
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Danish: abrod
    • → Old English: aprotane
    • → Finnish: aaprotti
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *abrūtā (see there for further descendants)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: abrodd, abrot
    • → Swedish: åbrodd
  • Learned borrowings:

References
  • “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “abrotonum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • abrotonum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • “abrotonum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • “abrotonum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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