lysimachia

See also: Lysimachia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λυσιμαχία (lusimakhía). According to Pliny the Elder, named for its discoverer Lysimachus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lyː.siˈma.kʰi.a/, [lʲyːs̠ɪˈmäkʰiä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.siˈma.ki.a/, [lis̬iˈmäːkiä]

Noun

lȳsimachia f (genitive lȳsimachiae); first declension

1. loosestrife: purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) or yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.LXXXII:

     […] item Lysimachia pota vel inlita vel naribus indita, […]

     • 1855–1857 translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley

       In such cases, lysimachia also is taken in drink, applied topically, or introduced into the nostrils; […]

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lȳsimachia	lȳsimachiae
genitive	lȳsimachiae	lȳsimachiārum
dative	lȳsimachiae	lȳsimachiīs
accusative	lȳsimachiam	lȳsimachiās
ablative	lȳsimachiā	lȳsimachiīs
vocative	lȳsimachia	lȳsimachiae

Descendants

• → French: lysimaque
• → Translingual: Lysimachia

Further reading

• “lysimachia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lysimachia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lysimachia”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011