mëgashtër

Albanian

Alternative forms
  • mugashtër

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin *medicaster,[1][2] from Latin medicus (“healing, medicine; doctor”), whence Albanian mjek (“doctor”), with the suffix -aster.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /məˈɡaʃtəɾ/

Noun

mëgashtër f (plural mëgashtra, definite mëgashtra, definite plural mëgashtrat)

  1. (botany) sage (Salvia officinalis)

Synonyms

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mëgashtër”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 258
  2. Topalli, K. (2017) “mëgashtër”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, pages 975-976
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