different between cardamom vs amomum

English

Alternative forms

• cardamon

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old French cardamome or Latin cardam?mum, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kardám?mon).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?.m?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k??.d?.m?m/, /?k??.d??m?m/

Noun

cardamom (countable and uncountable, plural cardamoms)

1. The Elettaria cardamomum, an Indian herb.
2. The seed of E. cardamomum, used as a medicine and spice, especially in curry powder.
3. (uncommon, inexact) Synonym of grains of paradise, the seeds or seed capsules of the East African Aframomum melegueta.

Synonyms

• (spice): elaichi, queen of spices

Derived terms

• Cardamom Mountains

Translations

References

• “cardamom, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1888
• Weeks, Hittite Vocabulary: An Anatolian Appendix to Buck‘sDictionary of SelectedSynonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cardam?mum, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (kardám?mon).

Noun

cardamom m (plural cardamoms)

1. cardamom

Further reading

• “cardamom” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Romanian

Etymology

From French cardamome.

Noun

cardamom n (uncountable)

1. cardamom

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin amomum.

Noun

amomum (plural amomums)

1. Any of several spices of genus Amomum, family Zingiberaceae, including cardamom.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ám?mon).

Noun

am?mum n (genitive am?m?); second declension

1. amomum
2. balm containing this spice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• amomum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• amomum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amomum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette