mandragoras
Appearance
See also: mandrágoras
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]mandragoras
- plural of mandragora
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.raːs/, [män̪ˈd̪räɡɔräːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.ras/, [män̪ˈd̪räːɡoräs]
Noun
[edit]mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mandragorās | mandragorae |
genitive | mandragorae | mandragorārum |
dative | mandragorae | mandragorīs |
accusative | mandragorān | mandragorās |
ablative | mandragorā | mandragorīs |
vocative | mandragorā | mandragorae |
Descendants
[edit]- → French: mandragore
- Italian: mandragora
- → Old English: mandragora
- Middle English: mandragora
- English: mandragora
- ⇒ Middle English: mandrake, mondrake
- English: mandrake
- Middle English: mandragora
- Old French: mandegloire
- → Portuguese: mandrágora
- → Polish: mandragora
- → Serbo-Croatian: mandragora
- → Spanish: mandrágora
References
[edit]- “mandragoras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mandragoras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Old Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]mandragoras f pl
- plural of mandragora
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