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lilium

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See also: Lilium

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension

  1. a lily

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Corsican: gigliu
      • Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
      • Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
    • Italian: giglio
      • Maltese: ġilju
    • Sicilian: gigghiu
    • Venetan: gìłio, xégio, xio
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: gi
    • Romansch: gilgia, gelgia
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: lilìn
    • Piedmontese: liri
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

Borrowings:

References

  • lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "lilium", 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)
  • lilium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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