alcea

Borrowed from Latin alcea.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈse.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈse.a]

alcea f (plural alcees)

1. vervain mallow (Malva alcea)

• “alcea”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Ancient Greek ἀλκέα (alkéa).

alcea f (genitive alceae); first declension

1. vervain mallow (Malva alcea)

First-declension noun.

• “alcea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alcea", 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)
• alcea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.