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Origanum
{
Or′i-gan
, ‖O-rig′a-num
, }p
rop.
Noun.
[L.
origanum
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], prob. fr. ὄρος
, mountain + [GREEK] brightness, beauty. Cf. Organy
.] (Bot.)
A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (
Origanum Marjorana
) and the wild marjoram (Origanum vulgare
). Spenser.
Definition 2025
Origanum
Origanum
See also: origanum
Translingual
Proper noun
Origanum n
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Lamiaceae - family; Nepetoideae - subfamily; Mentheae - tribe; Menthinae - subtribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Origanum vulgare - type species; for other species see
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origanum
origanum
See also: Origanum
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀρίγανον (oríganon).
Noun
orīganum n (genitive orīganī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | orīganum | orīgana |
| genitive | orīganī | orīganōrum |
| dative | orīganō | orīganīs |
| accusative | orīganum | orīgana |
| ablative | orīganō | orīganīs |
| vocative | orīganum | orīgana |
Descendants
References
- origanum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “origanum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.