Latin

Alternative forms

• cyclamen, cyclamīnon, cyclamīnum

Noun

cyclamīnos f ‎(genitive cyclamīnī); second declension

1. cyclamen, sowbread, Cyclamen hederifolium or Cyclamen repandum
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)
   • AD 4th–5th CC., Marcellus Empiricus Burdigalensis (author), Georgius Helmreich (editor), De medicamentis in Marcelli de medicamentis liber (1889), chapter i: “Ad capitis dolorem”, § 7 (page 27, lines 11–14):

     Per nares ergo purgatur caput his rebus infusis per cornu, quod Graece rhinenchytes vocatur: Hederae suco per se vel betae suco cum exiguo flore aeris vel cyclaminis suco mixto lacte aut aqua pari mensura.

Usage notes

• Nouns of feminine gender are rare in this declension; cyclaminos inherits its feminine gender from the Ancient Greek κυκλάμινος.

Declension

Second declension, Greek type.

References

• cyclămīnŏs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cyclămĕn”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 460/3.
• “cyclamīnos” on page 480/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)