Translingual

Cuminum cyminum

Proper noun

Cuminum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – cumin and similar spices.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Apiales - order; Apiaceae - family; Apioideae - subfamily; Scandiceae - tribe; Daucinae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cuminum cyminum (cumin) - type species

Latin

Noun

cumīnum n ‎(genitive cumīnī); second declension

1. cumin
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Item centena cere zucarii piperis cumini amigdalarum & alome continet xiii. petras & dimid’ & quelibet petra continet viii. li.

     Futhermore, the hundred of beeswax, sugar, pepper, cumin, almonds, & alum contains 13½ stone & each such stone contains 8 lbs.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• English: cumin
• Italian: cumino
• Portuguese: cominho
• Spanish: comino

References

• cuminum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuminum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cuminum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.