glycyrrhiza
See also: Glycyrrhiza
English
Etymology
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza, “sweet root, licorice”). Doublet of licorice.
Noun
glycyrrhiza (plural glycyrrhizas)
- Any legume (such as liquorice) of the genus Glycyrrhiza.
- 2015 July 8, “Pharmacokinetics of Active Components of Yokukansan, a Traditional Japanese Herbal Medicine after a Single Oral Administration to Healthy Japanese Volunteers: A Cross-Over, Randomized Study”, in PLOS ONE, :
- As various foods and sweeteners are known to contain glycyrrhiza, which contains GL, a glycoside of GA, we regulated the meals of subjects during this study.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek γλυκύρριζα (glukúrrhiza).
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | glycyrrhīza | glycyrrhīzae |
Genitive | glycyrrhīzae | glycyrrhīzārum |
Dative | glycyrrhīzae | glycyrrhīzīs |
Accusative | glycyrrhīzam | glycyrrhīzās |
Ablative | glycyrrhīzā | glycyrrhīzīs |
Vocative | glycyrrhīza | glycyrrhīzae |
Quotations
- before 79 C.E., Pliny the Elder, edited by Julius Sillig, C. Plini Secundi Naturalis historiae libri xxxvii, volume 2, Hamburg, published 1852, lib. xi, cap. liv, sect. 119, page 328:
- Quaedam rursus exiguo gustu famem ac sitim sedant conservantque viris, ut butyrum, hippace, glycyrriza; […]
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- before 79 C.E., Pliny the Elder, edited by Julius Sillig, C. Plini Secundi Naturalis historiae libri xxxvii, volume 3, Hamburg, published 1853, lib. xxii, cap. ix, sect. 11, page 425:
- Alii eryngen falso eandem putavere esse et glycyrrizam, quare subiungi eam protinus refert.
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Descendants
- ⇒ Late Latin: liquiritia
- Catalan: regalèssia
- Old French: licoresse (see there for further descendants)
- → Italian: liquirizia
- Sicilian: rigulizzia
- → Translingual: Glycyrrhiza
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