lilium
See also: Lilium
Latin
līlium (a lily)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion), from Fayyumic Coptic ϩⲗⲏⲣⲓ (hlēri), from Demotic 
(ḥrry), from Egyptian
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(ḥrrt, “flower”).
Perhaps also the root of Sanskrit हली (halī), हलिनी (halinī, “lily”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
- Hyphenation: li‧li‧um
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | līlium | līlia |
| Genitive | līliī līlī1 |
līliōrum |
| Dative | līliō | līliīs |
| Accusative | līlium | līlia |
| Ablative | līliō | līliīs |
| Vocative | līlium | līlia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- Ibero-Romance
- Aragonese: lidio
- Asturian: liriu
- Extremaduran: liriu
- Galician: lirio, lis
- Navarro-Aragonese: lirio
- Old Galician-Portuguese: liro, lilio
- Portuguese: lírio
- Old Spanish: lirio
- Occitano-Romance
- Gallo-Romance
- Gallo-Italic
- Ligurian: lilìn
- Piedmontese: liri
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Corsican: gigliu
- Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
- Italian: giglio
- Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
- Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
- Sicilian: gigghiu
- → Maltese: ġilju
- Venetian: gìłio, xégio, xio
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: gi
- Romansch: gilgia, gelgia
- Germanic
- Other
Unsorted borrowings
References
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lilium 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)
- lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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