apiastrum

Latin

Etymology

From api(um) (“parsley, celery”) +‎ -astrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.piˈas.trum/, [äpiˈäs̠t̪rʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.piˈas.trum/, [äpiˈäst̪rum]

Noun

apiastrum n (genitive apiastrī); second declension

1. Wild parsley.
2. balm (a plant of which bees are fond).

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	apiastrum	apiastra
genitive	apiastrī	apiastrōrum
dative	apiastrō	apiastrīs
accusative	apiastrum	apiastra
ablative	apiastrō	apiastrīs
vocative	apiastrum	apiastra

References

• “apiastrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apiastrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apiastrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.