serpentaria

See also: serpentária

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsɜː.pənˈtɛəɹi.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsɝ.pənˈtɛɹi.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə

Noun

serpentaria (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria).

References

• “serpentaria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Noun

serpentaria f (plural serpentarie)

1. dragonroot (Arisaema dracontium)

Latin

Etymology

From serpēns (“serpent, snake”) +‎ -āria (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛr.pɛnˈtaː.ri.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ser.penˈtaː.ri.a]

Noun

serpentāria f (genitive serpentāriae); first declension

1. snakeweed

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	serpentāria	serpentāriae
genitive	serpentāriae	serpentāriārum
dative	serpentāriae	serpentāriīs
accusative	serpentāriam	serpentāriās
ablative	serpentāriā	serpentāriīs
vocative	serpentāria	serpentāriae

Descendants

• → Catalan: serpentària
• → French: serpentaire

References

• “serpentaria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press