marrubium

See also: Marrubium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

marrubium (plural marrubiums)

1. Any of the genus Marrubium of bitter aromatic plants; horehound.

Latin

marrubium (Marrubium vulgare)

Etymology

Said to be unknown, but since it is a bitter plant the first part of it is easily identifiable as the Semitic word for “bitter”, Arabic مُرّ (murr) etc., unless it is the same word as treated under مَرْو (marw, “fragrant herbs”) ex Aramaic מַרְוָא / ܡܲܪܘܵܐ (marwā, “Origanum syriacum syn. Origanum maru”), whence Latin marum.

Noun

marrubium n (genitive marrubiī or marrubī); second declension

1. horehound, a herb used against respiratory maladies

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	marrubium	marrubia
Genitive	marrubiī marrubī1	marrubiōrum
Dative	marrubiō	marrubiīs
Accusative	marrubium	marrubia
Ablative	marrubiō	marrubiīs
Vocative	marrubium	marrubia

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

Descendants

• Translingual: Marrubium
• Catalan: malrubí, marrubí, marreu
• Italian: marrubio
• Spanish: marrubio

References

• “marrubium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “marrubium”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly