alosna

Galician

Etymology

15th century. From Old Galician-Portuguese alosna, probably borrowed from Old Spanish alosna, from the plural of Latin aloxinum.

Noun

alosna f (plural alosnas)

1. (archaic) grande wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

   Synonym: asente

   • 1409, José Luis Pensado Tomé, editor, Tratado de Albeitaria, Santiago de Compostela: Centro Ramón Piñeiro, page 125:

     Para esto ual enprasto feito de çumo da alosna et do apeo et de çera et de exulla de porco uello et pouco de vjno branco et ferua todo esto desuun con fariña triga

     For this is good a plaster made of celery and wormwood sap, and of wax, and of old pork grease, and some white wine, and let all this boil together with wheat flour

References

• “alosna” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “alosna” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “alosna” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish alosna, from Latin aloxina, plural of aloxinum. Cf. also the related aloja, from a Vulgar Latin root *aloxia, from Greek ἀλόη (alóē) ὀξεῖα (oxeîa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlosna/ [aˈloz.na]
• Rhymes: -osna
• Syllabification: a‧los‧na

Noun

alosna f (plural alosnas)

1. (botany) wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

   Synonyms: ajenjo, absintio

Related terms

• aloja

 

Further reading

• “alosna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014