abrotonites

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀβροτονίτης (abrotonítēs), itself from ἀβρότονον (abrótonon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ab.ro.toˈniː.teːs/, [äbrɔt̪ɔˈniːt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.ro.toˈni.tes/, [äbrot̪oˈniːt̪es]

Noun

abrotonītēs m (genitive abrotonītae); first declension

1. wine prepared with southernwood
   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Agricultura 12.35:

     Vinum absinthiten, et hyssopiten, et abrotoniten, et thymiten, et marathriten, et glechoniten sic condire oportet.

     It is thus proper to spice wine with wormwood, hyssop, southern-wood, thyme, fennel, and pennyroal

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).

	singular	plural
nominative	abrotonītēs	abrotonītae
genitive	abrotonītae	abrotonītārum
dative	abrotonītae	abrotonītīs
accusative	abrotonītēn	abrotonītās
ablative	abrotonītē	abrotonītīs
vocative	abrotonītē	abrotonītae

Related terms

• abrotonum

References

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