gossypium

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek γοσσύπιον (gossúpion), a borrowing from Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf), كُرْفُس (kurfus), ultimately from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), whence also Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “fabric of cotton”), whence Ancient Greek κάρπᾰσος (kárpăsos, “fabric of cotton”), whence carbasus (“fabric of cotton”). === Noun === gossypium n (genitive gossypiī or gossypī); second declension cotton wool, cotton ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== gossympinus ==== Descendants ==== English: gossypetin, gossypiboma, gossypol, gossypose Translingual: Gossypium === References === Plin. Nat. 19, 14 Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886), Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145 Löw, Immanuel (1924), Die Flora der Juden‎[1] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236 Parthey, Gustav (1844), Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 563 “gossypium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers