tinnunculus

la-noun

tinnunculus m (genitive tinnunculī); second declension

tinnunculī (genitive)
tinnunculus (nominative singular)
tinnunculī (nominative plural)
tinnunculī (genitive singular)
tinnunculōrum (genitive plural)
tinnunculō (dative singular)
tinnunculīs (dative plural)
tinnunculum (accusative singular)
tinnunculōs (accusative plural)
tinnunculō (ablative singular)
tinnunculīs (ablative plural)
tinnuncule (singular vocative)
tinnunculī (plural vocative)

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Translingual: Falco tinnunculus (“common kestrel”)

[t̪ɪnˈnʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]

Possibly from tinniō (“to shriek”, verb) + -unculus (diminutive) if the reading tinn- is correct. Manuscripts show variation in the form of the word. Lindsay 1918 argues that the correct reading is titi- (found in a manuscript of Columella but not of Pliny) and derives the word from an n-stem noun *titiō, titiōn- built on the root of titus (“wood pigeon”), comparing Romance words for woodpigeon descended from *titō, titōn- such as Sardinian tidu, tidone, totoni; Sicilian tuduni, tutuni, Maltese tudun.

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Genus accipitris tinnunculum vocant rustici, qui fere in aedificiis nidos facit. Eius pulli singuli fictilibus ollis conduntur, spirantibusque opercula superponuntur, et gypso lita vasa in angulis columbariis suspenduntur: quae res avibus amorem loci sic conciliat, ne unquam deserant.

4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 8.8.7.2

1941 translation by Harrison Boyd Ash
There is a kind of hawk which the country-folk call a tinnunculus (kestrel) and which generally makes its nest in buildings. The young of this bird are enclosed separately in earthenware pots, and while they are still breathing, lids are put over the pots which are smeared with plaster and hung up in the corners of the pigeon-houses. This induces in the birds such a love for the place that they never desert it.

Ob id cum his habenda est avis quae tinnungulus vocatur; defendit enim illas terretque accipitres naturali potentia in tantum ut visum vocemque eius fugiant. Hac de causa praecipuus columbis amor eorum, feruntque, si in quattuor angulis defodiantur in ollis novis oblitis, non mutare sedem columbas

c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.109.2

1940 translation by H. Rackham
For that reason the bird called kestrel must be classed with these; for it defends the pigeons, and scares the hawks by its natural powerfulness so much that they fly from sight and sound of it. For this reason wood-pigeons have a special love for kestrels, and they say that if kestrels put in new jars with their mouths sealed up are hidden in the four corners of the dovecot the pigeons do not change their abode


bahobab

bahobāb (canonical masculine)
bahobāb (nominative singular)
bahobāb (nominative plural)
bahobāb (genitive singular)
bahobāb (genitive plural)
bahobāb (dative singular)
bahobāb (dative plural)
bahobāb (accusative singular)
bahobāb (accusative plural)
bahobāb (ablative singular)
bahobāb (ablative plural)
bahobāb (singular vocative)
bahobāb (plural vocative)

→ Arabic: بَاوْبَاب (bāwbāb)

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→ English: baobab
→ Japanese: バオバブ (baobabu)

→ French: baobab
Mauritian Creole: baobab
→ Vietnamese: bao báp

→ Italian: baobab

→ Greek: μπάομπαμπ n (báompamp)

→ Russian: баоба́б (baobáb)
→ Kazakh: баобаб (baobab)

Borrowed from Arabic أَبُو حِبَاب (ʔabū ḥibāb, “father of many seeds”), from أَبُو (ʔabū, “father”) + حَبّ (ḥabb, “seed”).

bor+

أَبُو حِبَاب


betaceus

la-adj

bētāceus (feminine bētācea, neuter bētāceum); first/second-declension adjective

bētāceus (canonical)
bētācea (feminine)
bētāceum (neuter)
bētāceus (masculine nominative singular)
bētācea (feminine nominative singular)
bētāceum (neuter nominative singular)
bētāceī (masculine nominative plural)
bētāceae (feminine nominative plural)
bētācea (neuter nominative plural)
bētāceī (genitive masculine singular)
bētāceae (feminine genitive singular)
bētāceī (genitive neuter singular)
bētāceōrum (genitive masculine plural)
bētāceārum (feminine genitive plural)
bētāceōrum (genitive neuter plural)
bētāceō (dative masculine singular)
bētāceae (dative feminine singular)
bētāceō (dative neuter singular)
bētāceīs (dative feminine masculine neuter plural)
bētāceum (accusative masculine singular)
bētāceam (accusative feminine singular)
bētāceum (accusative neuter singular)
bētāceōs (accusative masculine plural)
bētāceās (accusative feminine plural)
bētācea (accusative neuter plural)
bētāceō (ablative masculine singular)
bētāceā (ablative feminine singular)
bētāceō (ablative neuter singular)
bētāceīs (ablative feminine masculine neuter plural)
bētācee (masculine singular vocative)
bētācea (feminine singular vocative)
bētāceum (neuter singular vocative)
bētāceī (masculine plural vocative)
bētāceae (feminine plural vocative)
bētācea (neuter plural vocative)

From bēta (beet) + -āceus (adjective-forming suffix).

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Dic sodes, inquit Fundanius; nam malo de meis pedibus audire, quam quem ad modum pedes betaceos seri oporteat

Marcus Terentius Varro, De Re Rustica 1.2.27

“Tell me if you wouldn’t mind,” said Fundanius; “for I prefer to hear of my feet than how beet-roots ought to be planted.”


halica

la-noun

halica f (genitive halicae); first declension

halicae (genitive)
halica (nominative singular)
halicae (nominative plural)
halicae (genitive singular)
halicārum (genitive plural)
halicae (dative singular)
halicīs (dative plural)
halicam (accusative singular)
halicās (accusative plural)
halicā (ablative singular)
halicīs (ablative plural)
halica (singular vocative)
halicae (plural vocative)


lysimachia

lȳsimachia f (genitive lȳsimachiae); first declension

lȳsimachia (canonical feminine)
lȳsimachiae (genitive)
lȳsimachia (nominative singular)
lȳsimachiae (nominative plural)
lȳsimachiae (genitive singular)
lȳsimachiārum (genitive plural)
lȳsimachiae (dative singular)
lȳsimachiīs (dative plural)
lȳsimachiam (accusative singular)
lȳsimachiās (accusative plural)
lȳsimachiā (ablative singular)
lȳsimachiīs (ablative plural)
lȳsimachia (singular vocative)
lȳsimachiae (plural vocative)

→ French: lysimaque

→ Translingual: Lysimachia

[lʲyːs̠ɪˈmäkʰiä]

From Ancient Greek λυσιμαχία (lusimakhía). According to Pliny the Elder, named for its discoverer Lysimachus.

[…] item Lysimachia pota vel inlita vel naribus indita, […]
1855–1857 translation by John Bostock and H. T. Riley

c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.LXXXII

In such cases, lysimachia also is taken in drink, applied topically, or introduced into the nostrils; […]

Lythrum salicaria
Lythrum salicaria#Translingual

loosestrife: purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) or yellow loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris)