ligusticum

See also: Ligusticum

Latin

Alternative forms

• Ligusticum (alternative case form)
• levisticum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λῐγῠστῐκόν (ligustikón, “bastard lovage”), from Λῐγῠστῐκός (Ligustikós, “Ligurian”), from Λῐ́γῠς (Lígus).

Noun

ligusticum n (genitive ligusticī); second declension

1. A plant indigenous to Liguria; lovage.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ligusticum	ligustica
Genitive	ligusticī	ligusticōrum
Dative	ligusticō	ligusticīs
Accusative	ligusticum	ligustica
Ablative	ligusticō	ligusticīs
Vocative	ligusticum	ligustica

Descendants

• Italian: levistico, libistico
• Old French: livesche, levesche, luvesche
  • French: livèche
  • → Middle English: loveache (see there for further descendants)
• Romanian: leuștean
  • → Bulgarian: лющя́н (ljuštján)
• → Catalan: levístic
• → Proto-West Germanic: *lubistik, *libistik, *libistok, *lubistok (see there for further descendants)
• → Greek: λεβιστικό (levistikó)
• → Hungarian: lestyán
• → Portuguese: ligústica, levístico
• → Spanish: levístico
• → Swedish: libbsticka