paeonia

See also: Paeonia and Pæonia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παιωνία (paiōnía, “peony”), from Ancient Greek Παιών (Paiṓn, “Paean, the physician of the gods”), related to παιών (paiṓn, “a physician”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pae̯ˈoː.ni.a/, [päe̯ˈoːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈo.ni.a/, [peˈɔːniä]

Noun

paeōnia f (genitive paeōniae); first declension

1. peony

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	paeōnia	paeōniae
genitive	paeōniae	paeōniārum
dative	paeōniae	paeōniīs
accusative	paeōniam	paeōniās
ablative	paeōniā	paeōniīs
vocative	paeōnia	paeōniae

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: peònia (learned)
• → Danish: pæon
• → Old English: peonia
  • Middle English: peonie
    • English: peony
• Old French: pyoine
  • French: pivoine
    • →⇒ Czech: pivoňka
    • → Polish: piwonia (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: pionie
    • Dutch: pioen
• → German: Päonie
• → Italian: peonia (learned)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: peon, pion
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: peon, pion
• → Polish: peonia
• → Portuguese: peónia, peônia (learned)
• → Spanish: peonía (learned)
• → Swedish: pion
  • → Finnish: pioni
• → Translingual: Paeonia

References

• “paeonia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paeonia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paeonia”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “paeonia”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “paeonia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly