helenium

See also: Helenium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

helenium (plural heleniums)

  1. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
    • 2016, Nancy J. Ondra, The Perennial Matchmaker: Create Amazing Combinations with Your Favorite Perennials:
      Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way.

Synonyms

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑλένιον (helénion), said to be named for Ἑλένη (Helénē) of Troy, who according to legend planted elecampane on the island of Pharos.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

helenium n (genitive heleniī or helenī); second declension

  1. elecampane (Inula helenium)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative helenium helenia
Genitive heleniī
helenī1		 heleniōrum
Dative heleniō heleniīs
Accusative helenium helenia
Ablative heleniō heleniīs
Vocative helenium helenia

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

Descendants
  • Translingual: Helenium
  • → Old English: elene
    • ⇒ Old English: horselene (see there for further descendants)

References
  • “helenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • helenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  2. Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 426 Sneezeweed Helenium Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 886. 1753; Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 377. 1754
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