allium

See also: Allium

English

Allium cepa (common onion)

Etymology

From Latin allium

Noun

allium (plural alliums)

  1. Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, related to onions and garlic.

See also

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHlu- (“esculent root”), uncertainly reconstructed. Related only to Sanskrit आलु (ālu, “esculent root”)[1], whence Hindi आलु (ālu, “potato, yam”), and the culinary borrowing, English aloo (“potato”).

Alternatively, Kroonen suggests that it may be a borrowing from the root of Ancient Greek ἄγλις (áglis), specifically via a byform *adlī-. See the Ancient Greek entry for more.[2]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈal.li.um/, [ˈal.li.ũ]

Noun

allium n (genitive alliī); second declension

  1. garlic, onion

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative allium allia
genitive alliī
allī1		 alliōrum
dative alliō alliīs
accusative allium allia
ablative alliō alliīs
vocative allium allia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

  • Neapolitan: aglio
  • Occitan: alh
  • Piedmontese: aj
  • Portuguese: alho
  • Romanian: ai
  • Sardinian: àllu, azu
  • Sicilian: agghiu
  • Spanish: ajo
  • Translingual: Allium
  • Venetian: ajo
  • Walloon: a

See also

  • alum (“wild garlic”)

References

  • allium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • allium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • allium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • allium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ↑ Mallory, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture
  2. ↑ Kroonen, Guus (2012), “An Akkadian loanword in Pre-Greek: on the etymology of Greek ἄγλις and γέλγις 'garlic'”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎, volume 40, page 295
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