lepidium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from translingual Lepidium, from Latin lepidium and Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion, literally “little scale”), diminutive of λεπίς (lepís, “scale, flake”). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ləˈpɪ.di.əm/ === Noun === lepidium (plural lepidiums) Any cruciferous plant of the genus Lepidium, often called garden cresses or pepperworts. ==== Translations ==== === See also === Lepidium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Lepidium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Lepidium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion). === Noun === lepidium n (genitive lepidiī or lepidī); second declension A plant, garden cress, pepperwort, Lepidium sativum. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Lepidium→ English: lepidium === References === “lepidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lepidium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.