caltha

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caltha (plural calthas)

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Caltha; a marsh marigold.

• Cathal

• calthum

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κάλαθος (kálathos), καλθε (kalthe, “yellow flower”), later “goblet” (because of its shape), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellow”).

caltha f (genitive calthae); first declension

1. marigold

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• Eastern Romance:
  • Romanian: calce (uncertain but likely)
• Italian: calta
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: calta
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• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *calthinus
  • → Albanian: kaltër, kaltë, kaltën, kaltërt

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