mandragoras
See also: mandrágoras
English edit
Noun edit
mandragoras
- plural of mandragora
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.raːs/, [män̪ˈd̪räɡɔräːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.ras/, [män̪ˈd̪räːɡoräs]
Noun edit
mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mandragorās | mandragorae |
Genitive | mandragorae | mandragorārum |
Dative | mandragorae | mandragorīs |
Accusative | mandragorān | mandragorās |
Ablative | mandragorā | mandragorīs |
Vocative | mandragorā | mandragorae |
Descendants edit
- → French: mandragore
- Italian: mandragora
- → Old English: mandragora
- Middle English: mandragora
- English: mandragora
- ⇒ Middle English: mandrake, mondrake
- English: mandrake
- Middle English: mandragora
- Old French: mandegloire
- → Portuguese: mandrágora
- → Polish: mandragora
- → Serbo-Croatian: mandragora
- → Spanish: mandrágora
References edit
- “mandragoras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mandragoras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Old Spanish edit
Noun edit
mandragoras f pl
- plural of mandragora