"asparagus" meaning in Latin

See asparagus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/ [Classical-Latin], [äs̠ˈpäräɡʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /asˈpa.ra.ɡus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [äsˈpäːräɡus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Also found in Medieval Latin. From Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos). Etymology templates: {{der|la|grc|ἀσπάραγος}} Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos) Head templates: {{la-noun|asparagus<2>}} asparagus m (genitive asparagī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|asparagus<2>}} Forms: asparagī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], asparagus [nominative, singular], asparagī [nominative, plural], asparagī [genitive, singular], asparagōrum [genitive, plural], asparagō [dative, singular], asparagīs [dative, plural], asparagum [accusative, singular], asparagōs [accusative, plural], asparagō [ablative, singular], asparagīs [ablative, plural], asparage [singular, vocative], asparagī [plural, vocative]
  1. asparagus; shoot, sprout-like asparagus, samphire Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (lifeform): Vegetables

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
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      "depth": 1,
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            "1": "sq",
            "2": "shparg"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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      "text": "Albanian: shparg"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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          "args": {
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: espàrrec"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
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            "2": "spirač"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Dalmatian: spirač"
    },
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "asparagus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: asparagus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: asparagus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "asperge"
          },
          "expansion": "French: asperge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: asperge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "sparc",
            "3": "sparg"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: sparc, sparg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: sparc, sparg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "espárrago"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: espárrago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: espárrago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Spargel"
          },
          "expansion": "German: Spargel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "German: Spargel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "asparagas",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: asparagas",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: asparagas"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "asparago"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: asparago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: asparago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "szparag",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: szparag",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: szparag"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
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            "2": "esparga"
          },
          "expansion": "Occitan: esparga",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: esparga"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "aspargo",
            "3": "espargo"
          },
          "expansion": "Portuguese: aspargo, espargo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: aspargo, espargo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "spargia",
            "3": "aspergia"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: spargia, aspergia",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: spargia, aspergia"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "sparau",
            "3": "isparau",
            "4": "isparau",
            "alt": "sparàu",
            "alt2": "isparàu",
            "alt3": "ispàrau"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: sparàu, isparàu, ispàrau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: sparàu, isparàu, ispàrau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "spàraciu",
            "3": "spàriciu"
          },
          "expansion": "Sicilian: spàraciu, spàriciu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: spàraciu, spàriciu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "espárrago"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: espárrago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: espárrago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "spàraxo",
            "3": "sparexara"
          },
          "expansion": "Venetian: spàraxo, sparexara",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Venetian: spàraxo, sparexara"
    }
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        "1": "la",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "ἀσπάραγος"
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Also found in Medieval Latin. From Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος (aspáragos), variant of ἀσφάραγος (aspháragos).",
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      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "asparagus",
      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparage",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "asparagus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "asparagus m (genitive asparagī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "asparagus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Vegetables",
          "orig": "la:Vegetables",
          "parents": [
            "Foods",
            "Plants",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then make little ditches to drop the asparagus roots into.",
          "ref": "c. 160 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura, archived from the original on 2022-04-03, chapter 161:",
          "text": "Deinde fossulās facitō, quō rādīcēs asparagī dēmittās.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "That in daily conversation he [Augustus] often and famously used certain [expressions], his own handwritten letters show; among these, … to express the speed of a thing done quickly, faster than asparaguses are cooked; …",
          "ref": "121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, “Divus Augustus”, in De Vita Caesarum, chapter 87:",
          "text": "Cōtīdiānō sermōne quaedam frequenter et nōtābilius ūsurpāsse eum [Augustum], litterae ipsius autographae ostendunt, in quibus [...] ad exprimendam festīnātae reī vēlōcitātem, celerius quam asparagī cocuntur; [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "asparagus; shoot, sprout-like asparagus, samphire"
      ],
      "id": "en-asparagus-la-noun-8-I3POdc",
      "links": [
        [
          "asparagus",
          "asparagus#English"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "samphire",
          "samphire"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/asˈpa.ra.ɡus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äs̠ˈpäräɡʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/asˈpa.ra.ɡus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äsˈpäːräɡus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asparagus"
}
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  "descendants": [
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      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sq",
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          },
          "expansion": "Albanian: shparg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Albanian: shparg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "espàrrec"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: espàrrec",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: espàrrec"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "dlm",
            "2": "spirač"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Dalmatian: spirač"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "asparagus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: asparagus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: asparagus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "asperge"
          },
          "expansion": "French: asperge",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "French: asperge"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fur",
            "2": "sparc",
            "3": "sparg"
          },
          "expansion": "Friulian: sparc, sparg",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Friulian: sparc, sparg"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "espárrago"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: espárrago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: espárrago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "de",
            "2": "Spargel"
          },
          "expansion": "German: Spargel",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "German: Spargel"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ga",
            "2": "asparagas",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Irish: asparagas",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Irish: asparagas"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "asparago"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: asparago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: asparago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "szparag",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: szparag",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: szparag"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "oc",
            "2": "esparga"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Occitan: esparga"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pt",
            "2": "aspargo",
            "3": "espargo"
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          "expansion": "Portuguese: aspargo, espargo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Portuguese: aspargo, espargo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "rm",
            "2": "spargia",
            "3": "aspergia"
          },
          "expansion": "Romansch: spargia, aspergia",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romansch: spargia, aspergia"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sc",
            "2": "sparau",
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            "4": "isparau",
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            "alt2": "isparàu",
            "alt3": "ispàrau"
          },
          "expansion": "Sardinian: sparàu, isparàu, ispàrau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sardinian: sparàu, isparàu, ispàrau"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "scn",
            "2": "spàraciu",
            "3": "spàriciu"
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          "expansion": "Sicilian: spàraciu, spàriciu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Sicilian: spàraciu, spàriciu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "espárrago"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: espárrago",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: espárrago"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "vec",
            "2": "spàraxo",
            "3": "sparexara"
          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
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        "3": "ἀσπάραγος"
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    {
      "form": "asparagī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparage",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "asparagī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "asparagus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "asparagus m (genitive asparagī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Latin 4-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin masculine nouns",
        "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin second declension nouns",
        "Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
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        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "la:Vegetables"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Then make little ditches to drop the asparagus roots into.",
          "ref": "c. 160 BCE, Marcus Porcius Cato, De agri cultura, archived from the original on 2022-04-03, chapter 161:",
          "text": "Deinde fossulās facitō, quō rādīcēs asparagī dēmittās.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "english": "That in daily conversation he [Augustus] often and famously used certain [expressions], his own handwritten letters show; among these, … to express the speed of a thing done quickly, faster than asparaguses are cooked; …",
          "ref": "121 CE, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, “Divus Augustus”, in De Vita Caesarum, chapter 87:",
          "text": "Cōtīdiānō sermōne quaedam frequenter et nōtābilius ūsurpāsse eum [Augustum], litterae ipsius autographae ostendunt, in quibus [...] ad exprimendam festīnātae reī vēlōcitātem, celerius quam asparagī cocuntur; [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "asparagus; shoot, sprout-like asparagus, samphire"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "asparagus",
          "asparagus#English"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ],
        [
          "samphire",
          "samphire"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/asˈpa.ra.ɡus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äs̠ˈpäräɡʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/asˈpa.ra.ɡus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äsˈpäːräɡus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "asparagus"
}

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