Lycium

Lycium

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύκιον (lúkion, dyer's buckthorn).

Proper noun

Lycium n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – boxthorns, wolfberries, and goji berry.

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion).

    Proper noun

    Lycīum n sg (genitive Lycīī); second declension

    1. The Lyceum, near Athens.

    References

    • Lycium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • Lycīum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • Ly̆cīum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.