Translingual

Solanum lycocarpum

Proper noun

Solanum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – the nightshades (senso stricto); mostly poisonous, but including food plants such as tomato, potato and aubergine.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Solanaceae - family; Solanoideae - subfamily; Solaneae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Solanum lycopersicum (tomato), Solanum melongena (aubergine, eggplant), Solanum quitoense (naranjilla), Solanum tuberosum (potato) (selected species)
  • For many more see Solanum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Noun

solanum ‎(plural solanums)

1. (botany) Any plant in the genus Solanum.
2. (East Africa) A traditional green vegetable in the genus Solanum, specifically Solanum nigrum, and sometimes Solanum macrocarpon, Solanum scabrun, and Solanum villosum.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

First used by Pliny. Possible etymologies include:

• sōl ‎(“sun”) +‎ -ānus
• sōlor ‎(“to comfort, soothe”) +‎ -nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.num/, [soːˈɫaː.nũ]

Noun

sōlānum n ‎(genitive sōlānī); second declension

1. a plant: nightshade

Declension

Second declension.

References

• solanum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SOLANUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)