Translingual

Tribulus terrestris

Proper noun

Tribulus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Zygophyllaceae – the puncture vine and related plants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Zygophyllales - order; Zygophyllaceae - family

Latin

Noun

tribulus m ‎(genitive tribulī); second declension

1. caltrop
2. a type of thistle

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: trebbia
• Portuguese: tríbulo, trilho
• Spanish: tríbulo

References

• tribulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tribulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• TRIBULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tribulus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• tribulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tribulus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin