lilium

See also: Lilium

Latin

līlium (a lily)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈliː.li.um/, [ˈlʲiːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.li.um/, [ˈliːlium]
• Hyphenation: li‧li‧um

Noun

līlium n (genitive līliī or līlī); second declension

1. a lily

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	līlium	līlia
genitive	līliī līlī1	līliōrum
dative	līliō	līliīs
accusative	līlium	līlia
ablative	līliō	līliīs
vocative	līlium	līlia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• līlāceus
• līliētum
• līlinus

Descendants

• Ibero-Romance
  • Aragonese: lidio
  • Asturian: liriu
  • Extremaduran: liriu
  • Galician: lirio, lis
  • Navarro-Aragonese: lirio
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: liro, lilio
    • Portuguese: lírio
  • Old Spanish: lirio
    • Spanish: lirio
      • → Tagalog: liryo
• Occitano-Romance
  • Catalan: lliri
  • Occitan: liri, leri, lys, ile, ieli
• Gallo-Romance
  • Old French: lis
    • Middle French: lis
      • French: lis, lys
  • Franco-Provençal: lis
  • Jersey Norman: lis
  • Walloon: li, ri, lis
• Gallo-Italic
  • Ligurian: lilìn
  • Piedmontese: liri
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: gigliu
  • Gallurese: lillu, lìciu
  • Italian: giglio
    • → Maltese: ġilju
  • Sardinian: lizu, lilliu, lillu, lixu, lìgiu, gixu, gìgliu, gìsgiu
  • Sassarese: lizu, gìgliu
  • Sicilian: gigghiu
  • Venetan: gìłio, xégio, xio
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: gi
  • Romansch: gilgia, gelgia

Borrowings

• → Esperanto: lilio
• → Hungarian: liliom
• → Old Dutch: līlia, lilia
  • Middle Dutch: lilie, lēlie
    • Dutch: lelie
      • Afrikaans: lelie
• → Old English: lilie
  • English: lily
    • → Malay: lili
    • → Indonesian: lili
    • → Thai: ลิลลี่ (lin-lîi)
• → Old High German: lilia
  • Middle High German: lilje
    • German: Lilie
      • → Czech: lilie
      • → Romanian: lilie
    • Yiddish: ליליע (lilye)
    • → Polish: lilia
• → Old Norse: lilja
  • Danish: lilje
  • Faroese: lilja
  • Icelandic: lilja
  • Norwegian:
    • Norwegian Bokmål: lilje
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: lilje
  • Old Swedish: lilia
    • Swedish: lilja
    • → Finnish: lilja
• → Translingual: Lilium

Unsorted borrowings

• → Basque: lilia
• → Bulgarian: лилия (lilija)
• → Cornish: lilien, lili
• → Irish: lile
• → Lithuanian: lelijà
• → Macedonian: лилјан (liljan)
• → Russian: лилия (lilija)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ljìljan／љѝљан
• → Slovene: lilija
• → Welsh: lili, lilïau

References

• “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lilium 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)
• lilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.