acrocorium

Latin

Etymology

Erroneous reading of cyica, a type of bulbous plant, in Pliny, Naturalis historia, 19.30.95. Attested later as a ghost word in the Glossary of Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 1000), glossed as dille.

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.kroˈko.ri.um/, [äkroˈkɔːrium]

Noun

acrocorium n (no genitive); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin, hapax) dill

Further reading

• “acrŏcŏrĭum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press