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malva

mallow-plant

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Where it lives

Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1 · 8.33/10k
De Re Coquinaria 7 · 4.46/10k
Epodon 1 · 3.33/10k
De Medicina 8 · 0.78/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 29 · 0.73/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

1. malva — de Vaan

malva 'mallow-plant' [f. a] (Varro+) Probably a borrowing from a Mediterranean language, maybe Semitic: Hebn mallUah 'name of a plant'. See also the vacillation in the yocalism of Gr. μαλάχη (also attested as μαλόχη, μολόχα) 'mallow'. Bibl: WH II: 17f.,EM380. — [de Vaan, s.v. malva, p. 375]

2. malva — Lewis & Short

malva, ae, f.mala/xh,

I mallows: in magnis laudibus malva est utraque, et sativa, et silvestris. Duo genera earum amplitudine folii discernuntur: majorem Graeci malopen vocant in sativis. Alteram ab emoliendo ventre dictam putant malachen, etc., Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 222; Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2; Mart. 10, 48, 7.

3. malva — Walde–Hofmann

malva, -ae f. ,Malve" (seit Cinna und Varro, rom. [ebenso malvahibiscus „Eibisch“, s. oben S. 670, Sofer Isid, 130]; Demin. malvella Malvenkleid* Isid. [Sofer Isid. 42], malväeeus „malvenförmig* seit Plin.; aus malva entl. korn. malou, bret. malu „Malve“ [Fick 1I* 203] und ags. mealıve (engl. mallow), mndl. malulw)e, während nhd. Malve junge Entlehnung aus ital. malva ist, s. Schrader RL. II? 36): samt gr. paldyn … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. malva, p. 923]

In the wild

malvas Ovid, Fasti 4.697
malvae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.8.p10
malva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.14.p1
malva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p1
malvae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 19.4.p6
malva Celsus, De Medicina 2.20

6 of 53 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. malva (scan p. 375; entry #989).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. malua (scan p. 404; entry #6433).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. malva (scan pp. 923-927; entry #1673). Root candidates: *alu-, *malauo-, *mis-.

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