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hyoscyamus

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See also: Hyoscyamus

English

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Etymology

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From the genus name.

Noun

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hyoscyamus (countable and uncountable, plural hyoscyamuses or hyoscyami)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Hyoscyamus of henbanes.
  2. (medicine) The leaves of black henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), used in neuralgic and pectoral troubles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hyoscyamus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῠ̔οσκῠ́ᾰμος (huoskúamos), from ὗς (hûs, pig) +‎ κῠ́ᾰμος (kúamos, bean).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hyoscyamus m (genitive hyoscyamī); second declension

  1. henbane

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative hyoscyamus hyoscyamī
genitive hyoscyamī hyoscyamōrum
dative hyoscyamō hyoscyamīs
accusative hyoscyamum hyoscyamōs
ablative hyoscyamō hyoscyamīs
vocative hyoscyame hyoscyamī

Descendants

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  • Catalan: jusquiam
  • French: jusquiame
  • Italian: giusquiamo
  • Occitan: jusquiam

References

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