myrobalanum
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυροβάλανος (murobálanos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /my.roˈba.la.num/, [mʏrɔˈbäɫ̪änʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mi.roˈba.la.num/, [miroˈbäːlänum]
Noun
[edit]myrobalanum n (genitive myrobalanī); second declension
- myrobalan fruit
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 23.98:
- Palma quae fert myrobalanum probatissima in Aegypto. Ossa non habet reliquarum modo in balanis, alvum et menses sistit in vino austero et vulnera conglutinat.
- 1938 translation by W.H.S. Jones
- The palm which bears the myrobalanum, found in Egypt, is very highly esteemed. It has no stone in its dates, as other date-palms have. Taken in a dry wine it checks diarrhoea and excessive menstruation, and unites wounds.
- 1938 translation by W.H.S. Jones
- Palma quae fert myrobalanum probatissima in Aegypto. Ossa non habet reliquarum modo in balanis, alvum et menses sistit in vino austero et vulnera conglutinat.
- myrobalan tree
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | myrobalanum | myrobalana |
genitive | myrobalanī | myrobalanōrum |
dative | myrobalanō | myrobalanīs |
accusative | myrobalanum | myrobalana |
ablative | myrobalanō | myrobalanīs |
vocative | myrobalanum | myrobalana |
Descendants
[edit]- → English: myrobalan
- → French: myrobalan (learned)
- → German: Myrobalane
- Old French: mirabolan
- Spanish: mirobálano
References
[edit]- “myrobalanum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- myrobalanum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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