different between baldmoney vs meum

English

Alternative forms

• maldmoney, bald-money, bawd money, bawd-money, baldmoyne, bald-moyne

Etymology

Apparently a corruption of Latin vald? bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??ld?m?ni/

Noun

baldmoney (uncountable)

1. Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.

   Synonyms: meu, meon, meum, spignel, bearwort

2. (obsolete) A Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort.

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• molybdena

English

Etymology

From Latin m?um (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi??m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mi.?m/

Noun

meum (uncountable)

1. spignel, Meum athamanticum

   Synonyms: meon, meu, baldmoney, bearwort

Translations

References

• Meum athamanticum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Meum athamanticum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Meum athamanticum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology 1

Translated by Pliny the Elder from Ancient Greek ???? (mêon, “Meum athamanticum”), probably from ????? (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me?.um/, [?me????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?m??um]

Noun

m?um n (genitive m??); second declension

1. an umbelliferous plant, Meum athamanticum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• English: meum
• Middle French: meu (perhaps)
  • English: meu
• Translingual: Meum, Meum athamanticum

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?me???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?me.um/, [?m??um]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /meu?m/, [m?u?m]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meu?m/, [m?u?m]

Pronoun

meum

1. nominative neuter singular of meus
2. accusative masculine singular of meus
3. accusative neuter singular of meus
4. vocative neuter singular of meus

See also

• tuus
• suus

References

• meum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• meum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.