antirrhinon

• antirrhīnum, antirrīnum

From the Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ρρῑνον (antírrhīnon, “calf’s snout”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an.tirˈriː.non/, [än̪t̪ɪrˈriːnɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an.tirˈri.non/, [än̪t̪irˈriːnon]

antirrhīnon n (genitive antirrhīnī); second declension

1. snapdragon, antirrhinum, lion’s mouth, lion’s snap, calf’s snout (any plant of the genus Antirrhinum)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pliny the Elder to this entry?)

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• (any plant of the genus Antirrhinum): anarrhīnon

• Translingual: Antirrhinum
• English: antirrhinum
• ?Italian: antirrino

• “antirrhīnon (-um)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• antirrhīnŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 137/2.
• “antirrīnum” on page 143/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)