asparagus
See also: Asparagus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos). Displaced Old English eorþnafola.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
- (US) IPA(key): /əˈspɛɹ.ə.ɡəs/, /əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
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Noun edit
asparagus (plural asparagus or asparaguses or asparagusses or asparagi)
- Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.
- Synonyms: sparrowgrass, sparagus, sparagrass
- The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
- (color) A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
- asparagus:
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
asparagus plant, Asparagus officinalis
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asparagus shoots (food)
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Further reading edit
- asparagus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Asparagus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- “asparagus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Also found in Medieval Latin. From Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/, [äs̠ˈpäräɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/, [äsˈpäːräɡus]
Noun edit
asparagus m (genitive asparagī); second declension
- asparagus; shoot, sprout-like asparagus, samphire
- c. 160 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura[1], archived from the original on 2022-04-03, chapter 161:
- Deinde fossulās facitō, quō rādīcēs asparagī dēmittās.
- Then make little ditches to drop the asparagus roots into.
- 121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, “Divus Augustus”, in De Vita Caesarum, chapter 87:
- Cōtīdiānō sermōne quaedam frequenter et nōtābilius ūsurpāsse eum [Augustum], litterae ipsius autographae ostendunt, in quibus [...] ad exprimendam festīnātae reī vēlōcitātem, celerius quam asparagī cocuntur; [...]
- That in daily conversation he [Augustus] often and famously used certain [expressions], his own handwritten letters show; among these, [...] to express the speed of a thing done quickly, faster than asparaguses are cooked; [...]
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | asparagus | asparagī |
Genitive | asparagī | asparagōrum |
Dative | asparagō | asparagīs |
Accusative | asparagum | asparagōs |
Ablative | asparagō | asparagīs |
Vocative | asparage | asparagī |
Descendants edit
- Albanian: shparg
- Catalan: espàrrec
- Dalmatian: spirač
- → English: asparagus
- French: asperge
- Friulian: sparc, sparg
- Galician: espárrago
- German: Spargel
- → Irish: asparagas
- Italian: asparago
- → Polish: szparag
- Occitan: esparga
- Portuguese: aspargo, espargo
- Romansch: spargia, aspergia
- Sardinian: sparàu, isparàu, ispàrau
- Sicilian: spàraciu, spàriciu
- Spanish: espárrago
- Venetian: spàraxo, sparexara
References edit
- “asparagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “asparagus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- asparagus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin asparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos). Doublet of szparag.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
asparagus m inan or asparagus m animal
Declension edit
Declension of asparagus
singular | plural | |
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nominative | asparagus | asparagusy |
genitive | asparagusu | asparagusów |
dative | asparagusowi | asparagusom |
accusative | asparagus | asparagusy |
instrumental | asparagusem | asparagusami |
locative | asparagusie | asparagusach |
vocative | asparagusie | asparagusy |
or:
Declension of asparagus
singular | plural | |
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nominative | asparagus | asparagusy |
genitive | asparagusa | asparagusów |
dative | asparagusowi | asparagusom |
accusative | asparagusa | asparagusy |
instrumental | asparagusem | asparagusami |
locative | asparagusie | asparagusach |
vocative | asparagusie | asparagusy |
Related terms edit
adjective
nouns
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French asparagus.
Noun edit
asparagus m (plural asparaguși)
Declension edit
Declension of asparagus
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) asparagus | asparagusul | (niște) asparaguși | asparagușii |
genitive/dative | (unui) asparagus | asparagusului | (unor) asparaguși | asparagușilor |
vocative | asparagusule | asparagușilor |