amaracus

From Latin , from Ancient Greek ἀμάρακος (amárakos), variant of ἀμάρακον (amárakon).

amaracus (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Marjoram.
   • 1842, Tennyson, "Oenone", in The Lady of Shallot and other poems

     Then to the bower they came, / Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower, / And at their feet the crocus brake like fire, / Violet, amaracus, and asphodel, / Lotos and lilies: and a wind arose, / And overhead the wandering ivy and vine, / This way and that, in many a wild festoon / Ran riot, garlanding the gnarled boughs / With bunch and berry and flower thro' and thro'.

• amaracus at OneLook Dictionary Search
• amaracus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• caramusa

• amāracum

From Ancient Greek ἀμάρακος (amárakos); compare Sanskrit मरुव (maruva, “marjoram”).

amāracus m (genitive amāracī); second declension

1. marjoram (Origanum majorana)

• Identification with Origanum majorana is uncertain, but O. m. var tenuifolium, native to Cyprus fits Pliny's description especially well. Other species of Origanum, such as O. onites, are possible.

Second declension.

• (Medieval Latin): maiorana, majorana

• amaracus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amaracus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amaracus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• amaracus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers