lepidium

See also: Lepidium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λεπίδιον (lepídion).

Noun

lepidium n (genitive lepidiī or lepidī); second declension

1. A plant, garden cress, pepperwort, Lepidium sativum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lepidium	lepidia
Genitive	lepidiī lepidī1	lepidiōrum
Dative	lepidiō	lepidiīs
Accusative	lepidium	lepidia
Ablative	lepidiō	lepidiīs
Vocative	lepidium	lepidia

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

References

• “lepidium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lepidium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.