alisma

See also: Alisma

English

Noun

alisma (plural alismas)

1. A water plantain.

Anagrams

• Islaam, ilamas, lamias, salami

French

Noun

alisma f (plural alismas)

1. Alternative form of alisme

Further reading

• “alisma”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄλισμα (álisma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈlis.ma/, [äˈlʲɪs̠mä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlis.ma/, [äˈlizmä]

Noun

alisma n (genitive alismatis); third declension

1. water plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alisma	alismata
Genitive	alismatis	alismatum
Dative	alismatī	alismatibus
Accusative	alisma	alismata
Ablative	alismate	alismatibus
Vocative	alisma	alismata

Descendants

• Translingual: Alisma

References

• “alisma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alisma in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• alisma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.