centauria

== Latin == === Alternative forms === centaurēa === Etymology === Accessory form of centaurion in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, from Ancient Greek κενταύριον (kentaúrion), κενταύρειον (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from κένταυρος (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɛnˈtau̯.ri.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃenˈtaːu̯.ri.a] === Noun === centauria f (genitive centauriae); first declension (Medieval Latin) alternative form of centaurēum ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “centauria”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "centauria", 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)