mezereon

See also: mézéréon

English

mezereon

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mezereon, mezereum, from Arabic مَازَرْيُون (māzaryūn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /məˈzɪəriən/

Noun

mezereon (countable and uncountable, plural mezereons)

1. An ornamental shrub, Daphne mezereum, having purple flowers and bright red fruit.

   Synonyms: February daphne, mezereum, spurge olive

   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation II. Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, pages 18–19:

     We, Greville, are happy in these parks and forests: we were happy in my close winter-walk of box and laurustinus and mezereon. In our earlier days did we not emboss our bosoms with the crocusses, and shake them almost unto shedding with our transports!

2. The dried bark of this plant, once used as a vesicant.

Alternative forms

• mezerion

Translations

shrub

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَازَرْيُون m (māzaryūn)
• Azerbaijani: adi canavargiləsi
• Bashkir: бүре елеге (büre yelege), бүре йүкәһе (büre yükəhe)
• Basque: ereinoztxo
• Bulgarian: обикнове́но бя́сно дърво́ n (obiknovéno bjásno dǎrvó)
• Catalan: tintorell m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: lýkovec jedovatý m, lýkovec obecný m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: rood peperboompje (nl) n
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: näsiä (fi), riidenmarja (fi)
• French: mézéréon (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Seidelbast (de) m, Kellerhals m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: farkasboroszlán (hu)
• Kalmyk: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Kumyk: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: mezereon, mezereum n
• Latvian: parastā zalktene f
• Lithuanian: paprastasis žalčialunkis m
• Persian: مازریون (fa) (mâzaryun), هفت برگ
• Polish: wawrzynek wilczełyko m
• Portuguese: mezereão m
• Romanian: tulichină (ro) f
• Russian: волчея́годник обыкнове́нный m (volčejágodnik obyknovénnyj), во́лчник обыкнове́нный (vólčnik obyknovénnyj), во́лчье лы́ко (ru) n (vólčʹje lýko)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̀бичнӣ ли̏ковац m

  Latin: òbičnī lȉkovac m

• Slovak: lykovec jedovatý m
• Slovene: navádni volčín m
• Spanish: mezereón m
• Tatar: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: mezeryon
• Welsh: bliwlys f

Latin

mezereon

mezereon

Alternative forms

• almezereon, mezereum

Etymology

From Arabic مَازَرْيُون (māzaryūn).

Noun

mezereon n (indeclinable)

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) mezereon, spurge-olive (Daphne mezereum)
   • 1317, Matthaeus Silvaticus, Opus Pandectarum Medicinae, Venice, published 1540, page 45:
   • a. 1561, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ Græcorum ac Arabum clarissimi medici Opera quae extant omnia, Venice, published 1561, page 2 of fol. 462:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎^[1], Venice, published 1568, page 140:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎^[2], Venice, published 1568, page 177:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎^[3], Venice, published 1568, page 198:

Descendants

• → Translingual: Daphne mezereum
• → English: mezereon, mezereum
• → French: mézéréon
• → Portuguese: mezereão
• → Spanish: mezereón