cardamomum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cardamōmon === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek καρδάμωμον (kardámōmon). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kar.daˈmoː.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kar.daˈmɔː.mum] === Noun === cardamōmum n (genitive cardamōmī); second declension cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: cardamom → Galician: cardamomo → Italian: cardamomo → Middle English: cardamome, cardimomum, cardamomum (also from Old French) English: cardamom, cardamon→ Cornish: kardamon → Middle High German: kardamuome, kardamom German: Kardamom → Old French: cardamome Middle French: cardamome French: cardamome → Middle Dutch: cardemome, cardamome Dutch: kardemom → Old Spanish: cardamomo Spanish: cardamomo → Polish: kardamon (learned) → Portuguese: cardamomo → Romanian: cardamom → Russian: кардамон (kardamon) → Swedish: kardemumma → Finnish: kardemumma === References === “cardamomum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cardamomum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press