colocasia

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin colocasia. === Noun === colocasia (uncountable) (uncommon) Taro; eddo. == Italian == === Noun === colocasia f (plural colocasie) taro, elephant ears (plant of genus Colocasia) == Latin == === Alternative forms === colocāsium === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κολοκασία (kolokasía), κολοκάσιον (kolokásion). Of uncertain Asiatic origin shared with Mishnaic Hebrew קולקס, קרקס (“taro”) and Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās, “taro”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔ.ɫɔˈkaː.si.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ko.loˈkaː.s̬i.a] === Noun === colocāsia f (genitive colocāsiae); first declension Nelumbo spp., sacred lotus Colocasia spp., taro, eddo [from 4th century] ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “colocasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “colocasia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Grimaldi, Ilaria Maria (5 June 2018), “Literary evidence for taro in the ancient Mediterranean: A chronology of names and uses in a multilingual world”, in PLoS One‎[4], volume 13, number 6, →DOI Keimer, Ludwig (1984), Die Gartenpflanzen im alten Ägypten, volume 2, Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, →ISBN, page 62