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balsamine
English
Etymology
From Latin balsamina (“balsam plant”) (perhaps via French balsamine), from Ancient Greek ????????? (balsamín?). The Latin name of the unrelated balsam plant must have been applied to Impatiens balsamina soon after it arrived in Europe- Leonhart Fuchs referred to it as balsamina as early as 1542.
Noun
balsamine (plural balsamines)
- A plant, the Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.
Anagrams
- Lima beans, lima beans
French
Etymology
From Late Latin balsaminus, from Latin balsamum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal.za.min/
Noun
balsamine f (plural balsamines)
- balsam (plant) (clarification of this definition is needed)
Further reading
- “balsamine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Noun
balsamine f pl
- plural of balsamina
balsamine From the web:
balsam
English
Alternative forms
- balsem, balsum, balsome
Etymology
From Middle English *balsam, balsme, from Old English balsam, balsamum (“balsam, balm”), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon, “balsam”), of Semitic origin (Hebrew ????? (“spice, perfume”)). Doublet of balm.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: bôl?s?m, IPA(key): /?b??ls?m/
Noun
balsam (countable and uncountable, plural balsams)
- (chiefly Britain) A sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants.
- (chiefly Britain) A plant or tree yielding such substance.
- (chiefly Britain) A soothing ointment.
- (chiefly Britain, figuratively) Something soothing.
- Classical music is a sweet balsam for our sorrows
- A flowering plant of the genus Impatiens.
- The balsam family of flowering plants (Balsaminaceae), which includes Impatiens and Hydrocera.
- A balsam fir Abies balsamea.
- Canada balsam, a turpentine obtained from the resin of balsam fir.
Synonyms
- (sweet-smelling oil): balm
- (plant or tree): balm
- (soothing ointment): balm
- (something soothing): balm
- (flowering plant of the genus Impatiens): jewelweed, impatiens, touch-me-not
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Impatiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
balsam (third-person singular simple present balsams, present participle balsaming, simple past and past participle balsamed)
- (transitive) To treat or anoint with balsam.
Anagrams
- lambas, sambal
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish balsam(m), balsaim(e), from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon).
Noun
balsam m (genitive singular balsaim)
- (medicine) balsam, balm
- balsam (plant)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "balsam" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “balsam(m), balsaim(e)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Polish
Etymology
From Old Polish balsam or balszam, from Latin balsamum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (bálsamon, “balsam”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bal.sam/
Noun
balsam m inan
- (technical) balsam (“a sweet-smelling oil or resin derived from various plants”)
- (cosmetics, medicine, pharmacology) lotion (“a low-viscosity topical preparation intended for application to skin”)
- (historical) a substance used in thanatopraxy (“embalming of corpses”), specifically any substance used for this practice in Ancient Egypt.
- (figuratively) balsam (“something soothing”)
Declension
Synonyms
- (oil or resin): ?ywica
- (lotion): krem, mleczko, tonik
- (something soothing): otucha, ukojenie
Related terms
- balsamowanie
- balsamista
- balsamowiec
- balsamowa?
- balsamiczny
- balsamowy
- balsamowaty
- balsamicznie
See also
- natron
- mumifikacja
Further reading
- balsam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin balsamum. Appears since 17th century. Probably entered Romanian through multiple routes, with the most common form from Italian balsamo, or through use in old medicinal practice. A now archaic variant form valsam derived from Greek ??????? (válsamo). Cf. also German Balsam.
Noun
balsam n (plural balsamuri)
- balsam (clarification of this definition is needed)
- unction, balm, salve, unguent
Derived terms
- b?ls?ma
References
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