asplenium
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of spleenwort: any plant of the genus Asplenium.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Hellenic *ə- Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-) Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn) Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Hellenic *-on Ancient Greek -ον (-on) Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon)bor. Latin asplēnum Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -iusnom. Latin -ium Latin asplēniumbor. Translingual Aspleniumbor. English asplenium A genericization of taxonomic name Asplenium (“the spleenworts”), from Linnaeus's New Latin adjustment of Latin asplenon (“spleenwort”), from Ancient Greek ἄσπληνον (ásplēnon, “spleenwort”), from ἀ- (a-, “un-”) + σπλήν (splḗn, “spleen”) + -ον (-on, “-um”), from its use to cure anthrax in livestock.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Asplenium, -, asplenon, ἄσπληνον