different between absinthium vs absinthin

English

Etymology

From Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?s?n.?i.m?/

Noun

absinthium (uncountable)

1. (now rare) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.]
2. The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
3. absinthe oil

Translations

References

Anagrams

• bismuthian

Latin

Alternative forms

• apsinthium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (apsínthion, “wormwood”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?sin.t?i.um/, [äp?s??n?t??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap?sin.ti.um/, [?p?sin?t?ium]

Noun

absinthium n (genitive absinthi? or absinth?); second declension

1. wormwood
2. an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
3. (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome
4. accusative singular of absinthium
5. vocative singular of absinthium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Dalmatian: ascianz
• ? French: absinthe
  • ? Catalan: absenta
  • ? English: absinthe
  • ? Norwegian Bokmål: absint
  • ? Portuguese: absinto
• ? Georgian: ??????? (abzinda)
• ? Irish: apsaint
• Italian: assenzio
• ? Portuguese: absíntio
• Spanish: ajenjo
• ? Spanish: absintio

References

• absinthium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• absinthium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• absinthium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Alternative forms

• absinthiin

Etymology

From Latin absinthium.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb?s?n.??n/

Noun

absinthin (uncountable)

1. (organic chemistry) The principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄

Translations

References

• absinthin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.