chrysocalis

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from χρυσοκαλλίας?”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʰryːˈso.ka.lis/, [kʰryːˈs̠ɔkälʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kriˈso.ka.lis/, [kriˈs̬ɔːkälis]

chrȳsocalis f (genitive chrȳsocalis); third declension

1. aster (or similar plant)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• parthenium

• “chrysocalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chrysocalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.