Lycium
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Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek λύκιον (lúkion, “dyer's buckthorn”).
Proper noun
[edit]Lycium n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – boxthorns, wolfberries, and goji berry.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Solanaceae - family; Solanoideae - subfamily; Lycieae - tribe
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Lycium afrum - type species; Lycium barbarum, Lycium chinense - selected species; for other species see
Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
[edit]Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lycium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Lycium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion).
Proper noun
[edit]Lycīum n sg (genitive Lycīī); second declension
- The Lyceum, near Athens.
References
[edit]- “Lycium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Lycīum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ly̆cīum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- Translingual terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin lemmas
- Latin proper nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin terms spelled with Y
- Latin neuter nouns