lilium
See also: Lilium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri), from Demotic (ḥrry), from Egyptian
(ḥrrt, “flower”).
Perhaps also the root of Sanskrit हली (halī), हलिनी (halinī, “lily”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
- Hyphenation: li‧li‧um
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | līlium | līlia |
| Genitive | līliī līlī1 |
līliōrum |
| Dative | līliō | līliīs |
| Accusative | līlium | līlia |
| Ablative | līliō | līliīs |
| Vocative | līlium | līlia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Ibero-Romance
- Aragonese: lidio
- Asturian: liriu
- Extremaduran: liriu
- Galician: lirio, lis
- Navarro-Aragonese: lirio
- Old Galician-Portuguese: liro, lilio
- Portuguese: lírio
- Old Spanish: lirio
- Occitano-Romance
- Gallo-Romance
- Gallo-Italic
- Ligurian: lilìn
- Piedmontese: liri
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: gigliu
- Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
- Italian: giglio
- Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
- Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
- Sicilian: gigghiu
- → Maltese: ġilju
- Venetian: gìłio, xégio, xio
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: gi
- Romansch: gilgia, gelgia
- Germanic
- Other
Unsorted borrowings
References
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lilium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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