apium

See also: Apium

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From apis (“bee”) because of bees' perceived inclination towards the plant.

Noun

apium n (genitive apiī or apī); second declension

  1. parsley (with fragrant leaves)
  2. celery
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative apium apia
Genitive apiī
apī1		 apiōrum
Dative apiō apiīs
Accusative apium apia
Ablative apiō apiīs
Vocative apium apia

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

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Translingual: Apium
  • Catalan: api
  • Galician: apio, aipo, ampio
  • Italian: appio, apiolo
  • Occitan: api
  • Old French: ache
    • → English: ach
  • Neapolitan: accio
  • Portuguese: aipo
  • Romanian: achiu
  • Sardinian: àpiu, àppiu
  • Sicilian: accia
  • Spanish: apio
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *api (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Inflected form of apis (“bee”)

Noun

apium

  1. genitive plural of apis

References
  • “apium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “apium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • apium 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)
  • apium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “apium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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