gossypium

See also: Gossypium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γοσσύπιον (gossúpion), a borrowing from Arabic كُرْسُف (kursuf), كُرْفُس (kurfus), ultimately from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), whence also Hebrew כַּרְפַּס (karpás, “fabric of cotton”), whence Ancient Greek κάρπᾰσος (kárpasos, “fabric of cotton”), whence carbasus (“fabric of cotton”).

Noun

gossypium n (genitive gossypiī or gossypī); second declension

  1. cotton wool, cotton

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gossypium gossypia
Genitive gossypiī
gossypī1		 gossypiōrum
Dative gossypiō gossypiīs
Accusative gossypium gossypia
Ablative gossypiō gossypiīs
Vocative gossypium gossypia

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

  • gossympinus

Descendants

References
  • Plin. Nat. 19, 14
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 145
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 236
  • Parthey, Gustav (1844) Vocabularium coptico-latinum et latino-copticum e Peyroni et Tattami lexicis (in Latin), Berlin: Fr. Nicolai, page 563
  • “gossypium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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