Translingual

Allium schoenoprasum

Proper noun

Allium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaryllidaceae – the onions, garlic.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots - clades; Asparagales - order; Amaryllidaceae - family; Allioideae - subfamily; Allieae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Allium sativum - type species; Allium subg. Allium, Allium subg. Amerallium, Allium subg. Anguinum, Allium subg. Bromatorrhiza, Allium subg. Butomissa, Allium subg. Caloscordum, Allium subg. Cepa, Allium subg. Cyathophora, Allium subg. subg. Melanocrommyum, Allium subg. Microscordum, Allium subg. Nectaroscordum, Allium subg. Polyprason, Allium subg. Porphyroprason, Allium subg. Reticulatobulbosa, Allium subg. Rhizirideum, Allium subg. Vvedenskya - subgenera

English

Allium cepa (common onion)

Noun

allium ‎(plural alliums)

1. Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, related to onions and garlic.

See also

• allium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• allium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ālu ‎(“esculent root”), uncertainly reconstructed. Related only to Sanskrit आलु ‎(ālu, “esculent root”)^[1], whence Hindi आलु ‎(ālu, “potato, yam”), and the culinary borrowing, English aloo ‎(“potato”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.li.um/, [ˈal.li.ũ]

Alternative forms

• alium

Noun

allium n ‎(genitive alliī); second declension

1. garlic, onion

Declension

Second declension.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

See also

• alum ‎(“wild garlic”)

Descendants

References

• allium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• allium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “allium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• allium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

1. ↑ Mallory, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture