Translingual

Centaurea aspera

Proper noun

Centaurea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – thistle-like flowering plants, such as knapweed.

Hypernyms

• (tribe): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Carduoideae - subfamily; Cardueae - tribe; Centaureinae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• For species see Centaurea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies or Centaurea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Centaurium

Italian

Noun

centaurea f ‎(plural centauree)

1. centaury, star thistle (Centaurea)

Latin

Alternative forms

• centauria

Etymology

Accessory form of centaurēum in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, from Ancient Greek κενταύρειον ‎(kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from κένταυρος ‎(kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur).

Noun

centaurēa f ‎(genitive centaurēae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of centaurēum

Declension

First declension.

Descendants

• Dutch: centaurie
• Old English: centaurie
  • Middle English: centaure
    • English: centaury
• French: centaurée
• Ido: centaureo
• Italian: centaurea
• Norman: centaurée
• Occitan: centaurèa
• Portuguese: centáurea
• Translingual: Centaurea

References

• centaurēa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press