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

Etymology

Said to unknown[1], 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.

Noun

marrubium n (genitive marrubiī); second declension

  1. horehound, a herb used against respiratory maladies

Inflection

Second declension.

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

Descendants
  • Translingual: Marrubium
  • Italian: 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
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “marrubium”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume II, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 43
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