verbascum

See also: Verbascum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Verbascum, from Latin verbascum.

Noun

verbascum (plural verbascums or verbasca)

  1. (chiefly botany, taxonomy) A mullein (of genus Verbascum)

Latin

Etymology

Related to verbēna (“foliage”).

Noun

verbascum n (genitive verbascī); second declension

  1. mullein

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative verbascum verbasca
genitive verbascī verbascōrum
dative verbascō verbascīs
accusative verbascum verbasca
ablative verbascō verbascīs
vocative verbascum verbasca

Descendants

  • Italian: barbasso (further variants listed in), tasso barbasso, tassobarbasso
  • → Translingual: Verbascum

References

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