allium

== English == === Etymology === From translingual Allium, from Latin allium. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈæliəm/ Rhymes: -æliəm === Noun === allium (plural alliums or allia) Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic. ==== Usage notes ==== The English plural alliums is now preferred, over the Latinate allia. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === allium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia allium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:allium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === See ālium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈal.li.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈal.li.um] === Noun === allium n (genitive alliī or allī); second declension late form of ālium (found since 1st century CE) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). === References === “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “allium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “allium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers