acrocorium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.kroˈko.ri.um/, [äkroˈkɔːrium]
Noun edit
acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension
Further reading edit
- “acrŏcŏrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press