centauria
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Accessory form of centaurion in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, from Ancient Greek κενταύριον (kentaúrion), κενταύρειον (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kenˈtau̯.ri.a/, [kɛn̪ˈt̪äu̯riä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃenˈtau̯.ri.a/, [t͡ʃen̪ˈt̪äːu̯riä]
Noun
centauria f (genitive centauriae); first declension
- (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of centaurēum
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “centauria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- centauria 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)
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