ligusticum

See also: Ligusticum

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ligusticum (alternative case form)
• levisticum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῐγῠστῐκόν (lĭgŭstĭkón, “bastard lovage”), from Λῐγῠστῐκός (Lĭgŭstĭkós, “Ligurian”), from Λῐ́γῠς (Lĭ́gŭs).

Noun

ligusticum n (genitive ligusticī); second declension

1. A plant indigenous to Liguria; lovage.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	ligusticum	ligustica
genitive	ligusticī	ligusticōrum
dative	ligusticō	ligusticīs
accusative	ligusticum	ligustica
ablative	ligusticō	ligusticīs
vocative	ligusticum	ligustica

Descendants

• Italian: levistico, libistico
• Old French: livesche, levesche, luvesche
  • French: livèche
  • → Middle English: loveache (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: leuștean
  • → Bulgarian: лющя́н (ljuštján)
• → Catalan: levístic
• → Proto-West Germanic: *lubistik, *libistik, *libistok, *lubistok (see there for further descendants)
• → Greek: λεβιστικό (levistikó)
• → Hungarian: lestyán
• → Portuguese: ligústica, levístico
• → Spanish: levístico