mezereon

From Medieval Latin mezereon, mezereum, from Arabic مَازَرْيُون (māzaryūn).

IPA^(key): /məˈzɪəriən/

mezereon (countable and uncountable, plural mezereons)

1. An ornamental shrub, Daphne mezereum, having purple flowers and bright red fruit.

   Synonyms: February daphne, mezereum, spurge olive

   • 1824, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation II. Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, pages 18–19:

     We, Greville, are happy in these parks and forests: we were happy in my close winter-walk of box and laurustinus and mezereon. In our earlier days did we not emboss our bosoms with the crocusses, and shake them almost unto shedding with our transports!

2. The dried bark of this plant, once used as a vesicant.

• mezerion

• almezereon, mezereum

From Arabic مَازَرْيُون (māzaryūn).

mezereon n (indeclinable)

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) mezereon, spurge-olive (Daphne mezereum)
   • 1317, Matthaeus Silvaticus, Opus Pandectarum Medicinae, Venice, published 1540, page 45:
   • a. 1561, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ Græcorum ac Arabum clarissimi medici Opera quae extant omnia, Venice, published 1561, page 2 of fol. 462:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 140:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه [Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh] (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 177:
   • a. 1568, أبو زكريا يحيى بن ماسويه Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā Ibn Māsawayh (Mesua), Mesuæ medici clarissimi Opera, a Joanne Costa medico laudensi nunc recognita, & aucta adnotationibus, quibus à recentiorum calumniis divinus hic scriptor vendicatur.‎, Venice, published 1568, page 198:

• → Translingual: Daphne mezereum
• → English: mezereon, mezereum
• → French: mézéréon
• → Portuguese: mezereão
• → Spanish: mezereón