alcea

See also: Alcea

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alcea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əlˈse.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [alˈse.a]

Noun

alcea f (plural alcees)

1. vervain mallow (Malva alcea)

Further reading

• “alcea”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀλκέα (alkéa).

Noun

alcea f (genitive alceae); first declension

1. vervain mallow (Malva alcea)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alcea	alceae
genitive	alceae	alceārum
dative	alceae	alceīs
accusative	alceam	alceās
ablative	alceā	alceīs
vocative	alcea	alceae

References

• “alcea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alcea", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alcea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.