caltha

See also: Caltha

English

Etymology

From the genus name (Latin caltha).

Noun

caltha (plural calthas)

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold.

Anagrams

• Cathal

Latin

Alternative forms

• calthum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos), καλθε (kalthe, “yellow flower”), later “goblet” (because of its shape), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).

Noun

caltha f (genitive calthae); first declension

1. marigold

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	caltha	calthae
Genitive	calthae	calthārum
Dative	calthae	calthīs
Accusative	caltham	calthās
Ablative	calthā	calthīs
Vocative	caltha	calthae

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: calce (uncertain but likely)
• Italian: calta
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: calta
• → French: caltha
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *calthinus
  • → Albanian: kaltër, kaltë, kaltën, kaltërt

References

• “caltha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caltha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• caltha in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.