Scaevola

Translingual

Scaevola plumieri (gullfeed)

Etymology

It is a reference to the story of Gaius Mucius Scaevola (whose name comes from scaevus (“left”)), because the dried flowers recall a withered hand.

Proper noun

Scaevola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Goodeniaceae – many species of tropical flowering plants found especially in Australia and Polynesia.

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; Goodeniaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Scaevola plumieri (gullfeed) - type species; Scaevola taccada (beach cabbage) - selected other species

References

• Scaevola (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scaevola on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Scaevola on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Scaevola at USDA Plants database

Latin

Etymology

From Scaeva (agnomen and cognomen) +‎ -ola (“-ole”, diminutive-forming suffix) or directly from scaevus (“left; left-handed; clumsy; very lucky or unlucky”) +‎ -ola.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈskae̯.u̯o.la/, [ˈs̠käe̯u̯ɔɫ̪ä]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.vo.la/, [ˈʃɛːvolä]

Proper noun

Scaevola m sg (genitive Scaevolae); first declension

1. a cognomen of the gens Muncia and others

   Gaius Mucius Scaevola

    

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Scaevola
Genitive	Scaevolae
Dative	Scaevolae
Accusative	Scaevolam
Ablative	Scaevolā
Vocative	Scaevola

References

• “Scaevola”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Scaevola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.