laserpicium

English

Alternative forms

lasarpicium

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laserpicium

Noun

laserpicium (uncountable)

silphium resin

Latin

Alternative forms

lāsarpīcium

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /laː.serˈpiː.ki.um/, [ɫaː.sɛrˈpiː.ki.ũ]

Noun

lāserpīcium n (genitive lāserpīcii); second declension

a plant, of the genus Laserpitium, also called silphium, from which asafoetida was obtained

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia
Genitive	lāserpīciī	lāserpīciōrum
Dative	lāserpīciō	lāserpīciīs
Accusative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia
Ablative	lāserpīciō	lāserpīciīs
Vocative	lāserpīcium	lāserpīcia

Derived terms

Descendants

Translingual: Laserpitium

See also

lāsar / lāser

References

laserpicium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
laserpicium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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