arction

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄρκτιον (árktion), apparently from ἄρκτος (árktos, “bear”) (LSJ glosses ἄρκτιον as "bearwort"). Compare ἄρκιον (árkion, “burdock”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈark.ti.on/, [ˈärkt̪iɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈark.t͡si.on/, [ˈärkt̪͡s̪ion]

Noun

arction n (genitive arctiī); second declension

1. some kind of plant, suggested to be Inula candida
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.16.33

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

	singular	plural
nominative	arction	arctia
genitive	arctiī	arctiōrum
dative	arctiō	arctiīs
accusative	arction	arctia
ablative	arctiō	arctiīs
vocative	arction	arctia

References

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