conferva
See also: Conferva
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin cōnferva. See comfrey.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈfɜːvə/
Noun edit
conferva (plural confervas or confervae or (obsolete) confervæ)
Translations edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “conferva”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfer.u̯a/, [kõːˈfɛru̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfer.va/, [koɱˈfɛrvä]
Noun edit
cōnferva f (genitive cōnfervae); first declension
- conferva (a green freshwater alga, formerly regarded as an aquatic plant)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
- consound (common comfrey, Symphytum officinale)
- 300 CE – 400 CE, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium 59.4:
- A Graecis dicitur sinfitum, alii confirma, alii conserva, alii pecte, alii alum Gallicum.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cōnferva | cōnfervae |
Genitive | cōnfervae | cōnfervārum |
Dative | cōnfervae | cōnfervīs |
Accusative | cōnfervam | cōnfervās |
Ablative | cōnfervā | cōnfervīs |
Vocative | cōnferva | cōnfervae |
Synonyms edit
- (consound): cōnsolida
Descendants edit
References edit
- “conferva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- conferva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 384/1.
- “conferua” on page 398/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)