lilium

See also: Lilium

Latin

līlium (a lily)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian

(ḥrrt, “flower”).

Perhaps also the root of Sanskrit हली (halī), हलिनी (halinī, “lily”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
• Hyphenation: li‧li‧um

Noun

līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension

1. a lily

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	līlium	līlia
Genitive	līliī līlī1	līliōrum
Dative	līliō	līliīs
Accusative	līlium	līlia
Ablative	līliō	līliīs
Vocative	līlium	līlia

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

Related terms

• līlāceus
• līliētum
• līlinus

Descendants

Ibero-Romance

• Aragonese: lidio
• Asturian: liriu
• Extremaduran: liriu
• Galician: lirio, lis
• Navarro-Aragonese: lirio
• Old Galician-Portuguese: liro, lilio
  • Portuguese: lírio
• Old Spanish: lirio
  • Spanish: lirio
    • → Tagalog: liryo

Occitano-Romance

• Catalan: lliri
• Occitan: liri, leri, lys, ile, ieli

Gallo-Romance

• Old French: lis
  • Middle French: lis
    • French: lis, lys
• Franco-Provençal: lis
• Jersey Norman: lis
• Walloon: li, ri, lis

Gallo-Italic

• Ligurian: lilìn
• Piedmontese: liri

Italo-Dalmatian

• Corsican: gigliu
• Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
• Italian: giglio
• Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
• Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
• Sicilian: gigghiu
• → Maltese: ġilju
• Venetian: gìłio, xégio, xio

Rhaeto-Romance

• Friulian: gi
• Romansch: gilgia, gelgia

Germanic

• → Old Dutch: līlia, lilia
  • Middle Dutch: lilie, lēlie
    • Dutch: lelie
      • Afrikaans: lelie
• → Old English: lilie
  • English: lily
    • → Malay: lili
    • → Indonesian: lili
    • → Thai: ลิลลี่ (lin-lîi)
• → Old High German: lilia
  • Middle High German: lilje
    • German: Lilie
      • → Czech: lilie
      • → Romanian: lilie
    • Yiddish: ליליע (lilye)
• → Old Norse: lilja
  • Danish: lilje
  • Faroese: lilja
  • Icelandic: lilja
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lilje
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: lilje
  • Old Swedish: lilia
    • Swedish: lilja
    • → Finnish: lilja

Other

• → Esperanto: lilio
• → Hungarian: liliom
• → Translingual: Lilium

Unsorted borrowings

• → Basque: lilia
• → Bulgarian: лилия (lilija)
• → Cornish: lilien, lili
• → Irish: lile
• → Lithuanian: lelijà
• → Macedonian: лилјан (liljan)
• → Polish: lilia
• → Russian: лилия (lilija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ljìljan, љѝљан
• → Slovene: lilija
• → Welsh: lili, lilïau

References

• “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lilium 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)
• lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.