apium

See also: Apium

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.um/, [ˈäpiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.pi.um/, [ˈäːpium]

Etymology 1

From apis (“bee”) because of bees' perceived inclination towards the plant.

Noun

apium n (genitive apiī or apī); second declension

1. parsley (with fragrant leaves)
2. celery

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	apium	apia
genitive	apiī apī1	apiōrum
dative	apiō	apiīs
accusative	apium	apia
ablative	apiō	apiīs
vocative	apium	apia

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

Derived terms

• apiacus
• apiastrum
• apiātus

 

Descendants

• Translingual: Apium
• Catalan: api
• Galician: apio, aipo, ampio
• Italian: appio, apiolo
• Occitan: api
• Old French: ache
  • → English: ach
• Neapolitan: accio
• Portuguese: aipo
• Romanian: achiu
• Sardinian: àpiu, àppiu
• Sicilian: accia
• Spanish: apio
  • → Cebuano: apyo
  • → Ladino: apyo
  • → Tagalog: apyo
• → Proto-West Germanic: *api (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of apis (“bee”)

Noun

apium

1. genitive plural of apis

References

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