different between artemisia vs mugwort

English

Etymology

From Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (artemisía), from ??????? (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t??m?z??/

Noun

artemisia (plural artemisias)

1. Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon, often used as traditional medicine and flavouring.

Translations

Further reading

• Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ????????? (artemisía), from ??????? (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar.te?mi.zja/

Noun

artemisia f (plural artemisie)

1. artemisia

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (artemisía), from ??????? (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.te?mi.si.a/, [ärt???m?s?iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.te?mi.si.a/, [?rt???mi?s?i?]

Noun

artemisia f (genitive artemisiae); first declension

1. mugwort (or similar plant)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

Spanish

Noun

artemisia f (plural artemisias)

1. Alternative form of artemisa

Further reading

• “artemisia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge +? wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??w??t/

Noun

mugwort (countable and uncountable, plural mugworts)

1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
2. Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 197:

     Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• absinthe, artemisia, sagebrush, tarragon, vermouth, wormwood

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mogwort, mogworte, mucgwurt, muggeworte, mugwourth, mugwurt, mugwyrt

Etymology

From Old English mucgwyrt; possibly equivalent to mydge +? wort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?wurt/

Noun

mugwort (uncountable)

1. wormwood, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

Descendants

• English: mugwort
• Scots: muggart
  • ? Scots: muggins

References

• “mug-wort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.