dulcamara

Borrowed from Latin dūlcamāra.

dulcamara (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) The dried young branches of the woody nightshade, formerly used as a diuretic, diaphoretic, sedative, and narcotic remedy.

dulcamara f (plural dulcamare)

1. woody nightshade

dulcamara m (invariable)

1. quack (charlatan doctor)

From dūlcamārus: as a noun, a substantivisation of its feminine forms; as an adjective, regularly declined forms.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.ra/, [duːɫ.kaˈmaː.ra]

dūlcamāra f (genitive dūlcamārae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Solanum dulcamara, bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, Amara Dulcis, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom, woody nightshade
   • 1784, Johann Gottfried Otto, Dissertatio de usu medico dulcamarae, main title

First declension.

• English: dulcamara
• ?Italian: dulcamara
• ?Spanish: dulcamara

dūlcamāra

1. nominative singular feminine of dūlcamārus
2. nominative plural neuter of dūlcamārus
3. accusative plural neuter of dūlcamārus
4. vocative singular feminine of dūlcamārus
5. vocative plural neuter of dūlcamārus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.raː/, [duːɫ.kaˈmaː.raː]

dūlcamārā

1. ablative singular feminine of dūlcamārus

dulcamara f (plural dulcamaras)

1. A vine in the nightshade family, bittersweet, Solanum dulcamara.