dulcamara
See also: Dulcamara
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin dūlcamāra.
Noun edit
dulcamara (uncountable)
- (medicine, archaic) The dried young branches of the woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara), formerly used as a diuretic, diaphoretic, sedative, and narcotic.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dulcamāra. Compare Italian dolce (“sweet”), amaro (“bitter”).
Noun edit
dulcamara f (plural dulcamare)
Noun edit
dulcamara m (invariable)
- quack (charlatan doctor)
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- dūlcamāra: (Classical) IPA(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.ra/, [d̪uːɫ̪käˈmäːrä]
- dūlcamāra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dul.kaˈma.ra/, [d̪ulkäˈmäːrä]
- dūlcamārā: (Classical) IPA(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.raː/, [d̪uːɫ̪käˈmäːräː]
- dūlcamārā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dul.kaˈma.ra/, [d̪ulkäˈmäːrä]
Etymology 1 edit
From dūlcamārus: as a noun, a substantivisation of its feminine forms; as an adjective, regularly declined forms.
Noun edit
dūlcamāra f (genitive dūlcamārae); first declension
- (New Latin) Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom, woody nightshade
- 1784, Johann Gottfried Otto, Dissertatio de usu medico dulcamarae, main title:
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārae |
Genitive | dūlcamārae | dūlcamārārum |
Dative | dūlcamārae | dūlcamārīs |
Accusative | dūlcamāram | dūlcamārās |
Ablative | dūlcamārā | dūlcamārīs |
Vocative | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārae |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: dulcamara, dolçamara (partial calque)
- English: dulcamara
- Italian: dulcamara
- Spanish: dulcamara
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
dūlcamāra
- inflection of dūlcamārus:
Adjective edit
dūlcamārā
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
dulcamara f (plural dulcamaras)
- a vine in the nightshade family, bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara)
Further reading edit
- “dulcamara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014