Artemisia
Translingual
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills
Proper noun
Artemisia f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe
Hyponyms
- See
Artemisia on WikispeciesWikispecies for the subgenera and species. But see Artemesia (genus) on WikipediaWikipedia for strong qualification of such classification.
References
Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Artemisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Artemisia at USDA Plants database
- Artemisia on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsíā).
Pronunciation
- Artemīsia
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ar.tɛˈmiː.si.a]
- Artemĭsia
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ar.tɛˈmɪ.si.a]
Proper noun
Artemī̆sia f (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension
- Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
- Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)
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- Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)
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Declension
First declension, with locative.
Case | Singular |
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Nominative | Artemī̆sia |
Genitive | Artemī̆siae |
Dative | Artemī̆siae |
Accusative | Artemī̆siam |
Ablative | Artemī̆siā |
Vocative | Artemī̆sia |
Locative | Artemī̆siae |
Only the name of the island can take the locative case.
Synonyms
- (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola
References
- Artĕmĭsĭa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 2 Artĕmīsĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette: “166/2”
- “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Further reading
Artemisia I on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la Artemisia insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia la
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