Artemisia

From Ancient Greek Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis”), the ancient Greek goddess of forests and hills.

Artemisia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – artemisias and plants known as wormwood, sagebrush, and mugwort.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Anthemideae - tribe

• (genus): Artemisia vulgaris (common wormwood, mugwort) - type species; Artemisia absinthium (absinthe), Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood), Artemisia abrotanum (southernwood), Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood), Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush) - selected species; for other species see Artemisia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Artemisia (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artemisia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Artemisia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Artemisia at USDA Plants database
• Artemisia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

From the Ancient Greek Ἀρτεμῑσῐ́ᾱ (Artemīsíā).

• Artemī̆sia: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmiː.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmiːs̠iä] or IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪ɛˈmɪs̠iä]
• Artemī̆sia: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.teˈmi.si.a/, [ärt̪eˈmiːs̬iä]
• Hyphenation: Ar‧te‧mi‧si‧a

Artemī̆sia f sg (genitive Artemī̆siae); first declension

1. Artemisia I of Caria (Queen of Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyros, and Calyndos circa 480 BC; daughter of Lygdamis and mother of Pisindelis; commander-in-person of her forces at the naval battles of Artemisium and Salamis during the Greco-Persian Wars)
2. Artemisia II of Caria (sister, wife, and successor [353–351 BC] of King Mausolus of Caria, after whose death and in whose honour she ordered the building of the renowned Mausoleum at Halicarnassus)

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3. Isle of Palmaiola (an islet of the Tuscan Archipelago, on the Tyrrhenian Sea)

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First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Only the name of the island can take the locative case.

• (islet of Palmaiola): Columbaria, Palmariola

• “Artĕmĭsĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Artĕmīsĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “166/2”
• “Artemisia¹” on page 176/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Artemisia I on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Artemisia insula on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la