Borrowed fromLatincōnferva. Seecomfrey.

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /kənˈfɜːvə/

conferva (pluralconfervasorconfervaeor(obsolete)confervæ)

1. (obsolete) Any of a number ofunbranchedslendergreenfreshwateralga, formerly in the genusConferva, now mostly inCladophora orTribonema

• “conferva”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• cōnfirma,cōnserva

Fromcōnferveō(“to heal, grow together”), possibly viaellipsis ofcōnfervaherba f(“healing plant/herb”), with-a as the feminine form of the adjective-deriving suffix-us, -a, -um.

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /konˈfer.u̯a/,[kõːˈfɛru̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /konˈfer.va/,[koɱˈfɛrvä]

cōnferva f (genitivecōnfervae);first declension

1. conferva(a green freshwater alga,formerly regarded as an aquatic plant)

   (Can wefind and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

2. consound(common comfrey,Symphytum officinale)
   • 300CE – 400CE,Pseudo-Apuleius,Herbarium 59.4:

     A Graecis dicitur sinfitum, alii confirma, alii conserva, alii pecte, alii alum Gallicum.

     (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• (consound):cōnsolida

• → English:conferva,comfrey
• → French:conferve

• “conferva”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conferva inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page384/1.
• “conferua” on page 398/3 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

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