caltha

== English == === Etymology === From the genus name (Latin caltha). === Noun === caltha (plural calthas) (botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold. === Anagrams === Cathal == Latin == === Alternative forms === calthum === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos), καλθε (kalthe, “yellow flower”), later “goblet” (because of its shape), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”). === Noun === caltha f (genitive calthae); first declension marigold ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Eastern Romance: Romanian: calce (uncertain but likely) Italian: calta Old Spanish: Spanish: calta → French: caltha ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *calthinus → Albanian: kaltër, kaltë, kaltën, kaltërt === References === “caltha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “caltha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “caltha”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.