mandragoras
See also: mandrágoras
English
Noun
mandragoras
- plural of mandragora
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μανδραγόρας (mandragóras), probably from a non-Indo-European Pre-Greek/substrate. Or, possibly from Old Persian *merdum gija (“plant of humans”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [manˈdra.ɡɔ.raːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [man̪ˈd̪raː.ɡo.ras]
Noun
mandragorās m (genitive mandragorae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mandragorās | mandragorae |
| genitive | mandragorae | mandragorārum |
| dative | mandragorae | mandragorīs |
| accusative | mandragorān | mandragorās |
| ablative | mandragorā | mandragorīs |
| vocative | mandragorā | mandragorae |
Descendants
- → French: mandragore
- Italian: mandragora
- → Old English: mandragora
- Middle English: mandragora
- English: mandragora
- ⇒ Middle English: mandrake, mondrake
- English: mandrake
- Middle English: mandragora
- Old French: mandegloire
- → Portuguese: mandrágora
- → Polish: mandragora
- → Serbo-Croatian: mandragora
- → Spanish: mandrágora
References
- “mandragoras”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mandragoras in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Old Spanish
Noun
mandragoras f pl
- plural of mandragora