Aethusa

== Translingual == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἴθουσᾰ (aíthousă, “poison hemlock, Conium maculatum”), feminine inflection of Ancient Greek αἴθων (aíthōn, “burning, blazing, lighting”). === Proper noun === Aethusa f A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – fool's parsley, fool's cicely, poison parsley, native to Turkey and almost all of Europe. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Apiales – order; Apiaceae – family; Apioideae – subfamily; Selineae – tribe ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Aethusa cynapium – sole species === References === Aethusa (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Aethusa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Aethusa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin Aethūsa, from Ancient Greek Αἵθουσα (Haíthousa). === Proper noun === Aethusa (Greek mythology) A daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas. She was loved by Apollo and bore to him Eleuther and Linus. Former name of Linosa (“Mediterranean island”). ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Αἵθουσα (Haíthousa). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ae̯ˈtʰuː.sa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈtuː.s̬a] === Proper noun === Aethūsa f sg (genitive Aethūsae); first declension (Greek mythology) Aethusa (a daughter of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, daughter of Atlas) ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. ==== Descendants ==== → English: Aethusa French: Éthuse === Further reading === “Æthūsa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.