mandragoras

See also: mandrágoras

English

mandragoras

From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.raːs/, [män̪ˈd̪räɡɔräːs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /manˈdra.ɡo.ras/, [män̪ˈd̪räːɡoräs]

mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

→ French: mandragore
Italian: mandragora
→ Old English: mandragora
- Middle English: mandragora
  - English: mandragora
  - ⇒ Middle English: mandrake, mondrake
    - English: mandrake
Old French: mandegloire
→ Portuguese: mandrágora
→ Polish: mandragora
→ Serbo-Croatian: mandragora
→ Spanish: mandrágora

“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

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