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Plantago

Plantago

See also: plantago

Translingual

Proper noun

Plantago f

A taxonomic genus within the family Plantaginaceae – including the common weed plantain.

Hyponyms

subgenera: Coronopus, Bougeria, Psyllium, Littorella

Derived terms

plantago

plantago

See also: Plantago

Latin

Noun

plantago

plantain

Descendants

Catalan: plantatge
English: plantain
French: plantain
Friulian: plantagn
Italian: piantaggine
Occitan: plantatge

Old Portuguese: chantagem
Portuguese: tanchagem, tansagem
Romanian: pătlagină
Romansh: lantagien
Spanish: llantén
Venetian: piantazen, piantaxene

References

plantago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plantago”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plantāgō. Compare the inherited doublet tanchagem.

Noun

plantago m or f (in variation) (plural plantagos)

plantain (any plant of the genus Plantago)

Synonyms

tanchagem, tansagem, transagem