galbanum

From Latin galbanum (“galbanum”), from Ancient Greek χαλβάνη (khalbánē, “galbanum”).

galbanum (countable and uncountable, plural galbanums)

1. A bitter, aromatic resin or gum, extracted from plants of the genus Ferula, that resembles assafoetida and has been used in incense and in aromatherapy
   • Bible, Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation

     And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.

   • Francis Bacon

     These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benzoin, loadstone, asphaltum.

From Latin galbanum.

• IPA^(key): /ɡal.ba.nɔm/

galbanum m (plural galbanums)

1. galbanum (resin from plants of the genus Ferula, used to make incense)

From Ancient Greek χαλβάνη (khalbánē, “galbanum”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡal.ba.num/, [ˈɡaɫ.ba.nũ]

galbanum n (genitive galbanī); second declension

1. galbanum

Second declension.

• galbaneus

• galbanum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• galbanum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• galbanum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette