amaracus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
amaracus (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Marjoram.
- 1842, Tennyson, “Oenone”, in The Lady of Shallot and other poems:
- Then to the bower they came, / Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, / And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, / Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, / Lotos and lilies: and a wind arose, / And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, / This way and that, in many a wild festoon / Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs / With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro'.
Further reading edit
- “amaracus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “amaracus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἀμάρακος (amárakos), ἀμάρακον (amárakon). Possible doublet of marathrum, marum, marrubium, and maiōrana.
Noun edit
amāracus m (genitive amāracī); second declension
Usage notes edit
- Identification with Origanum majorana is uncertain, but O. m. var tenuifolium, native to Cyprus fits Pliny's description especially well. Other species of Origanum, such as O. onites, are possible.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | amāracus | amāracī |
Genitive | amāracī | amāracōrum |
Dative | amāracō | amāracīs |
Accusative | amāracum | amāracōs |
Ablative | amāracō | amāracīs |
Vocative | amārace | amāracī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: amàrac (learned)
References edit
- “amaracus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “amaracus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- amaracus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “amaracus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers