petroselinum

See also: Petroselinum

Latin

Alternative forms

petroselīnon

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πετροσέλῑνον (petrosélīnon, “parsley”), from πέτρος (pétros, “rock, stone”) + σέλῑνον (sélīnon, “celery”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pe.tro.seˈliː.num/, [pɛ.trɔ.sɛˈliː.nũ]

Noun

petroselīnum n (genitive petroselīnī); second declension

rock parsley

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	petroselīnum	petroselīna
Genitive	petroselīnī	petroselīnōrum
Dative	petroselīnō	petroselīnīs
Accusative	petroselīnum	petroselīna
Ablative	petroselīnō	petroselīnīs
Vocative	petroselīnum	petroselīna

Descendants

Asturian: perexil
Dutch: peterselie
English: parsley
Finnish: persilja
French: persil
Friulian: persembul
Galician: perexil
German: Petersilie
Hungarian: petrezselyem
Irish: peirsil
Italian: prezzemolo
Neapolitan: petrusino

Old Occitan: peressil, peiressil, peresilh
Portuguese: perrexil
Romanian: pătrunjel
Romansh: peterschigl
Sardinian: pedrusìmula, padrusímula, pedrusèmini, perdusèmene, pedrusímulu
Serbo-Croatian: pȇršin
Sicilian: pitrusinu
Spanish: perejil
Venetian: parsèmoło, persémoło, parsìmoƚo
Walloon: pierzin

References

petroselinum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Dvoreckij, I. X. (1976), “petroselīnon”, in Latinsko-russkij slovarʹ [Latin–Russian Dictionary], 2nd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk, page 760a

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