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intensely
English
Alternative forms
- intencely
Etymology
intense +? -ly
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?t?nsli/
Adverb
intensely (comparative more intensely, superlative most intensely)
- In an intense manner.
- He pursued his studies intensely.
- To an intense degree, extremely.
- An intensely private man, he kept chit-chat to a minimum.
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absinthium
English
Etymology
From Latin absinthium, from Ancient Greek ???????? (apsínthion). Doublet of absinthe.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /æb?s?n.?i.m?/
Noun
absinthium (uncountable)
- (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.]
- The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant.
- absinthe oil
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References
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- 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
- wormwood
- an infusion of wormwood sometimes masked with honey due to its bitter taste
- (figuratively) something which is bitter but wholesome
- accusative singular of absinthium
- 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
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