cinnamomum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cinamōmum, cinnamon, cinnamum === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κιννάμωμον (kinnámōmon). Possible to be explained as “Chinese amōmum”, that word however is of unknown origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪn.naˈmoː.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃin.naˈmɔː.mum] === Noun === cinnamōmum n (genitive cinnamōmī); second declension cinnamon (plant and produce) 65 CE, Lucan, Pharsalia X v. 164–168 trans. Henry Thomas Riley p. 391 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia XII 50–51 trans. David Edward Eichholz 29–30 (figuratively) a term of endearment ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Synonyms ==== (cinnamon): cassia ==== Derived terms ==== cinnameus ==== Related terms ==== cinnamōminus ==== Descendants ==== Old French: cinnamone → Middle English: synamome, synamon, cynamome, cynamon, cynamum, synymone, senymon, cynamum, cinemum, sinamunEnglish: cinnamon→ Japanese: シナモン (shinamon)→ Korean: 시나몬 (sinamon)→ Māori: hinamona→ Welsh: sinamonScots: synomom (obsolete) → Esperanto: cinamo → Middle High German: zinemīn, zinment, zimet German: Zimt, Zimmt, Zimmet (archaic)→ Lower Sorbian: cymt→ Macedonian: цимет (cimet)→ Serbo-Croatian: cìmet, цѝмет→ Slovene: cīmet→ Upper Sorbian: cymt Hunsrik: Zimmet Yiddish: צימרינג (tsimring), צימערינג (tsimering) → Italian: cinnamomo (learned)→ Maltese: ċinnamonu → Old Polish: cynamon, cynamom, cynamum (learned)Polish: cynamon→ Belarusian: цынамо́н (cynamón)→ Lithuanian: cinamonas→ Ukrainian: цинамо́н (cynamón) → Translingual: Cinnamomum === References === “cinnamomum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cinnamomum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN