aloxinum

Latin

Alternative forms

aloxanum, aloxmum, aloxanus, alosanus

Etymology

Unknown;^[1] possibly borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀλόη ὀξινης (alóē oxinēs, “bitter aloe”),^[2]^[3] or perhaps Arabic الْإِسْفِنْط (al-ʔisfinṭ, “vermouth, wormwood wine”).^[4] Alternatively borrowed from Proto-West Germanic *alahsinā (“wormwood”), if not the other way around.^[5]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈlok.si.num/, [äˈɫ̪ɔks̠ɪnʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlok.si.num/, [äˈlɔksinum]

Noun

aloxinum n (genitive aloxinī); second declension^[6]^[4]^[7]^[8]

(Medieval Latin) absinthe, hydromel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aloxinum	aloxina
Genitive	aloxinī	aloxinōrum
Dative	aloxinō	aloxinīs
Accusative	aloxinum	aloxina
Ablative	aloxinō	aloxinīs
Vocative	aloxinum	aloxina

Descendants

Old Catalan: alosa
Old French: aluisne, aloisne, aloesne, aluesne, alogne
- Middle French: aluyne, aloine, aloinne
  - French: aluine
  - Norman: aliène
- Picard: aloine
- → Old Occitan: aluisne^[2]
  - Occitan: aluisne
Old Spanish: alosna
- Spanish: alosna
- → Old Italian: alóscia^[2]
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: alosna
  - Galician: alosna
  - Portuguese: lonsa^[2]
→? Proto-West Germanic: *alahsinā^[5] (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “alŏxĭnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 346
^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ALOJA”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos, page 44
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “aloxinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 38
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Alsem”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 22
^ Blaise, Albert (1975) “aloxinium”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 37
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “aloxinum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 43
^ Verhagen, Veerle Pauline (2016) The non-Latin lexis in the cooking terminology of Anthimus' De Observatione Ciborum (PhD Thesis)‎^[2], Leiden University, pages 15-16

[1] Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33

[FEW-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “alŏxĭnum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 346

[3] Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “ALOJA”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Gredos, page 44

[Niermeyer-4] 4.0 ^4.1 Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “aloxinium”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 38

[EWddS-5] 5.0 ^5.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Alsem”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 22

[6] Blaise, Albert (1975) “aloxinium”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 37

[7] Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “aloxinum”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 43

[8] Verhagen, Veerle Pauline (2016) The non-Latin lexis in the cooking terminology of Anthimus' De Observatione Ciborum (PhD Thesis)‎^[2], Leiden University, pages 15-16

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