artemisia

See also: Artemisia and artemísia

English

Etymology

From Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία (artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑːtɪˈmɪzɪə/

Noun

artemisia (plural artemisias)

1. Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon, often used as traditional medicine, oral contraceptive and flavoring.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

     In the event of anyone wishing to invoke the very Prince of Spirits, the following ingredients were prescribed to be burnt - Juice of Hypericon, Saffron, Artemisia, and the root of Valerian.

   • 2010, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegg, The Western Herbal Tradition, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 125:

     Our central issue, however, is whether the artemisia of Dioscorides is mugwort. Fuchs in Germany shows no hesitation in accepting the beyfusz of his country, called armoise by the French and Artemisia latifolia or broadleaved artemisia by the Italians, is the artemisia of Dioscorides, Galen, and Pliny, and he quotes them exactly on the plant's medicinal actions.

Derived terms

• artemisin
• artemisinin
• artemisinin

 

Translations

plant of the genus Artemisia

• Catalan: altimira (ca) f, artemísia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 艾 (zh) (ài), 蒿 (zh) (hāo)

• Czech: pelyněk (cs) m
• Esperanto: artemizio
• Finnish: maruna (fi)
• French: armoise (fr) f
• German: Artemisia f
• Greek: αρτεμισία (el) f (artemisía)
• Italian: artemisia (it) f
• Japanese: ヨモギ (yomogi)
• Manchu: ᠰᡠᡳᡥᠠ (suiha)
• Persian: درمنه (fa) (darmane)
• Polish: bylica f
• Portuguese: artemísia (pt) f
• Russian: артеми́зия f (artemízija), (джунга́рская) полы́нь (ru) f (polýnʹ)
• Spanish: artemisa f, altamisa f
• Turkish: yavşan (tr)

Further reading

• Artemisia (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin artemīsia, from Ancient Greek ἀρτεμῑσία (artemīsía), from Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.zja/
• Rhymes: -izja
• Hyphenation: ar‧te‧mì‧sia

Noun

artemisia f (plural artemisie)

1. artemisia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία (artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmɪs̠iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬iä]

Noun

artemisia f (genitive artemisiae); first declension

1. mugwort (or similar plant)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	artemisia	artemisiae
genitive	artemisiae	artemisiārum
dative	artemisiae	artemisiīs
accusative	artemisiam	artemisiās
ablative	artemisiā	artemisiīs
vocative	artemisia	artemisiae

Descendants

Descendants

• Old French: ermoize
  • French: armoise
• Galician: artemisa
• Italian: artemisia
• Old Occitan: artemezia, arsemisa, arcimiza
  • Catalan: artemisa, artemísia
  • Occitan: artemisa
• → Portuguese: artemigem (semi-learned)
• → Portuguese: artemísia
• → Spanish: artemisia, artemisa
• → English: artemisia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɾteˈmisja/ [aɾ.t̪eˈmi.sja]
• Rhymes: -isja
• Syllabification: ar‧te‧mi‧sia

Noun

artemisia f (plural artemisias)

1. Alternative form of artemisa

Further reading

• “artemisia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10