absinthium

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English absinthium, from Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /æbˈsɪn.θi.m̩/ === Noun === absinthium (uncountable) (now rare) Common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.] The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant. absinthe oil ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === bismuthian == Latin == === Alternative forms === apsinthium, absynthium === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀψίνθιον (apsínthion, “wormwood”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [apˈsɪn.tʰi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈsin.ti.um] === Noun === absinthium n (genitive absinthiī or absinthī); second declension wormwood an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “absinthium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "absinthium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “absinthium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers