lemonium

Latin

Alternative forms

• līmōnium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λειμώνιον (leimṓnion).

Noun

lēmōnium n (genitive lēmōniī or lēmōnī); second declension

1. (wild) beet

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lēmōnium	lēmōnia
Genitive	lēmōniī lēmōnī1	lēmōniōrum
Dative	lēmōniō	lēmōniīs
Accusative	lēmōnium	lēmōnia
Ablative	lēmōniō	lēmōniīs
Vocative	lēmōnium	lēmōnia

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

References

• “lemonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lemonium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lemonium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lemonium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers