serpentaria

Borrowed from Latin [Term?].

serpentaria (uncountable)

1. (medicine, archaic) The fibrous aromatic root of the Virginia snakeroot (Aristolochia serpentaria).

• “serpentaria”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

serpentaria f (plural serpentarie)

1. dragonroot (Arisaema dracontium)

From serpēns (“serpent, snake”) +‎ -āria (noun-forming suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ser.penˈtaː.ri.a/, [s̠ɛrpɛn̪ˈt̪äːriä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ser.penˈta.ri.a/, [serpen̪ˈt̪äːriä]

serpentāria f (genitive serpentāriae); first declension

1. snakeweed

First-declension noun.

• → Catalan: serpentària
• → French: serpentaire

• “serpentaria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press