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Cuminum
Cuminum
See also: cuminum
Translingual
Proper noun
Cuminum n
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
cuminum
cuminum
See also: Cuminum
Latin
Noun
cumīnum n (genitive cumīnī); second declension
- 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.
- Item centena cere zucarii piperis cumini amigdalarum & alome continet xiii. petras & dimid’ & quelibet petra continet viii. li.
- c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | cumīnum | cumīna |
genitive | cumīnī | cumīnōrum |
dative | cumīnō | cumīnīs |
accusative | cumīnum | cumīna |
ablative | cumīnō | cumīnīs |
vocative | cumīnum | cumīna |
Descendants
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.