damascenus

From Ancient Greek δαμασκηνός (damaskēnós).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /da.masˈkeː.nus/, [d̪ämäs̠ˈkeːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /da.maʃˈʃe.nus/, [d̪ämäʃˈʃɛːnus]

damascēnus (feminine damascēna, neuter damascēnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Damascene

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• Damascus
• prūnum damascēnum (“damson”, literally “Damascene plum, plum of Damascus”)

• → English: damson
• ⇒ damascena
  • Galician: ameixa (“plum”)
  • Leonese: méixena, méixana
  • Portuguese: ameixa (“plum”)
    • → Ladino: almexa, almixada (Monastir, Sarajevo)

• “damascenus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers