Lysimachia

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Lysimachia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae – many of the plants called loosestrifes and their relatives.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Primulaceae - family; Myrsinoideae - subfamily

• (genus): Lysimachia vulgaris (yellow loosestrife) - type species

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λῡσῐμᾰ́χειᾰ (Lūsimákheia).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /lyː.si.maˈkʰiː.a/, [lʲyːs̠ɪmäˈkʰiːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /li.si.maˈki.a/, [lis̬imäˈkiːä]

Lȳsimachīa f sg (genitive Lȳsimachīae); first declension

1. a town of Chersonesus in Thrace

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Lȳsimachienses

• “Lysimachia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Lysimachia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Lysimachia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly