Translingual

Artemisia absinthium

Proper noun

Artemisia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe

Hyponyms

• See Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies for the subgenera and species. But see Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia for strong qualification of such classification.

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ ‎(Artemīsíā).

Pronunciation

Artemīsia

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ar.tɛˈmiː.si.a]

Artemĭsia

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ar.tɛˈmɪ.si.a]

Proper noun

Artemī̆sia f ‎(genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension

1. Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
2. Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
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3. Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)
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Declension

First declension, with locative.

Only the name of the island can take the locative case.

Synonyms

• (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola

References

• Artĕmĭsĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “2 Artĕmīsĭa”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 166/2.
• “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

English

Noun

artemisia ‎(plural artemisias)

1. Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon.

Translations

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία ‎(artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις ‎(Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Noun

artemisia f ‎(plural artemisie)

1. artemisia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία ‎(artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις ‎(Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ar.tɛˈmɪ.si.a]

Noun

artemisia f ‎(genitive artemisiae); first declension

1. mugwort (or similar plant)

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• English: artemisia
• French: armoise
• Italian: artemisia
• Portuguese: artemísia (borrowed), artemigem
• Spanish: artemisa, artemisia