hormiscion

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ermiscion, hermiscion, hormesion, hormiceon, hormireon, hormisceon, hormision (falsae lectiones) === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὁρμῐ́σκῐον (hormĭ́skĭon). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [hɔrˈmɪs.ki.ɔn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈmiʃ.ʃi.on] === Noun === hormiscion n (genitive hormisciī); second declension a gem (further details are uncertain) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type). === References === “hormiscĭon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “hormiscĭŏn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 754, column 2. Joaquim Affonso Gonçalves (1936) [1841], Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum (in Chinese), third edition, Digitized at Dickinson College, 2023, Peking: Typis Congregationis Missionis, Hormesion