Latin

Alternative forms

• lāsarpīcium

Noun

lāserpīcium n ‎(genitive lāserpīcii); second declension

1. a plant, of the genus Laserpitium, also called silphium, from which asafoetida was obtained

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• lāsarpīcifer
• lāserpīciārius
• lāserpīciātus

Descendants

• Translingual: Laserpitium

See also

• lāsar / lāser

References

• laserpicium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “laserpicium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.