Artemisia

See also: artemisia and artemísia

Translingual

Artemisia absinthium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills.

Proper noun

Artemisia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Artemisia vulgaris (common wormwood, mugwort) - type species; Artemisia absinthium (absinthe), Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood), Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) - selected species; for other species see Artemisia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Artemisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Artemisia at USDA Plants database
• Artemisia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsíā).

Pronunciation

• Artemī̆sia: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmiːs̠iä] or IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmɪs̠iä]
• Artemī̆sia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬iä]
• Hyphenation: Ar‧te‧mi‧si‧a

Proper noun

Artemī̆sia f sg (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension

1. Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
2. Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)

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3. Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)

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Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Artemī̆sia
Genitive	Artemī̆siae
Dative	Artemī̆siae
Accusative	Artemī̆siam
Ablative	Artemī̆siā
Vocative	Artemī̆sia
Locative	Artemī̆siae

Only the name of the island can take the locative case.

Synonyms

• (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola

References

• “Artĕmĭsĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Artĕmīsĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “166/2”
• “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading

• Artemisia I on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Artemisia insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la