acrocorium

== Latin == === Etymology === Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.krɔˈkɔ.ri.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.kroˈkɔː.ri.um] === Noun === acrocorium n (genitive acrocoriī or acrocorī); second declension (Medieval Latin, hapax legomenon) dill ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “acrŏcŏrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “acrocorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.