panax
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]panax (plural panaxes)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) + ἄκος (ákos, “cure”). Used for ginseng by Linnaeus owing to its pervasive use in traditional Chinese medicine.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpa.naks/, [ˈpänäks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.naks/, [ˈpäːnäks]
Noun
[edit]panax m (genitive panacis); third declension
Usage notes
[edit]- The species of the plant is not clear. The seems to have been used by different classical authors to refer to a few different plants: all-heal, Ferulago galbanifera; Aesculapius' all-heal, Echinophora tenuifolia; centaury, Centaurea salonitana; feverfew, Centaurium erythraea; elecampane, Inula helenium; Chiron's all-heal, Mount Olympus Saint John's wort, Hypericum olympicum. Notably none of these are genus Panax.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | panax | panacēs |
genitive | panacis | panacum |
dative | panacī | panacibus |
accusative | panacem | panacēs |
ablative | panace | panacibus |
vocative | panax | panacēs |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Translingual: Panax
References
[edit]- “panax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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