gossypium

See also: Gossypium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γοσσύπιον (gossúpion), a borrowing from Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf), كُرْفُس (kurfus), ultimately from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), whence also Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “fabric of cotton”), whence Ancient Greek κάρπᾰσος (kárpasos, “fabric of cotton”), whence carbasus (“fabric of cotton”).

Noun

gossypium n (genitive gossypiī or gossypī); second declension

1. cotton wool, cotton

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	gossypium	gossypia
genitive	gossypiī gossypī1	gossypiōrum
dative	gossypiō	gossypiīs
accusative	gossypium	gossypia
ablative	gossypiō	gossypiīs
vocative	gossypium	gossypia

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

Related terms

• gossympinus

Descendants

• English: gossypetin, gossypiboma, gossypol, gossypose
• Translingual: Gossypium

References

• Plin. Nat. 19, 14
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
• Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎^[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236
• Parthey, Gustav (1844) Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 563
• “gossypium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers