FromAncient Greekἀβρότονον(abrótonon,“wormwood, southernwood”), of uncertain ultimate origin; possibly asubstrate akin toAkkadian(𒀀)𒈬𒌨𒁲𒉡((a)murdennu,“thorned flower”).
Artemisia abrotanum(Classical Latin)IPA(key): [aˈbrɔ.tɔ.nũː]
abrotonum n (genitiveabrotonī);second declension
- southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum)
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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- “abrotonum”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abrotonum”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abrotonum”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abrotonum”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abrotonum”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “abrotonum”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010),Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN