gossypium

See also: Gossypium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γοσσύπιον (gossúpion), a borrowing from Arabic كُرْسُف‎ (kursuf), كُرْفُس‎ (kurfus), ultimately from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), whence also Hebrew כַּרְפַּס‎ (karp̄ás, “fabric of cotton”), whence Ancient Greek κάρπᾰσος (kárpasos, “fabric of cotton”), whence carbasus (“fabric of cotton”).

Noun

gossypium n (genitive gossypiī); second declension

  1. cotton wool, cotton

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gossypium gossypia
Genitive gossypiī gossypiōrum
Dative gossypiō gossypiīs
Accusative gossypium gossypia
Ablative gossypiō gossypiīs
Vocative gossypium gossypia
  • gossympinus

Descendants

References
  • Plin. Nat. 19, 14
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236
  • Parthey, Gustav (1844) Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 563
  • gossypium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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