cichorium

See also: Cichorium

Latin

Alternative forms

• cichorēum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιχόριον (kikhórion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kiˈkʰo.ri.um/, [kɪˈkʰɔriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈko.ri.um/, [t͡ʃiˈkɔːrium]

Noun

cichorium n (genitive cichoriī or cichorī); second declension

1. chicory, succory
2. endive

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cichorium	cichoria
Genitive	cichoriī cichorī1	cichoriōrum
Dative	cichoriō	cichoriīs
Accusative	cichorium	cichoria
Ablative	cichoriō	cichoriīs
Vocative	cichorium	cichoria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Descendants

• → Albanian: kore
• Aromanian: tsicoarã
• Catalan: xicoira
• → Basque: txikoria
• → Galician: chicoria
• Friulian: cicorie
• Italian: cicoria
  • → German: Zichorie, Cichorie (obsolete)
    • → Swedish: cikoria
      • → Finnish: sikuri
• Occitan: cicorèa
• → Old French: cicoree
  • French: chicorée
    • → German: Chicorée, Schikoree (older spelling)
    • → Greek: σικορέ (sikoré)
  • Norman: chicôrée
  • Walloon: cécoreye
  • → Middle Dutch: cicoreije
    • Dutch: cichorei
    • →⇒ Middle Dutch: sukereye
      • Dutch: suikerij
      • → English: succory
  • → Middle English: cicoree
    • English: chicory
• → Polish: cykoria
• Portuguese: chicória
• Romanian: cicoare
• → Russian: цико́рий (cikórij)
• Sicilian: cicòria
• Spanish: achicoria
• → Translingual: Cichorium

References

• “cichorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cichorium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.