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malva

From LSJ

Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.

Latin > English

malva malvae N F :: mallow-plant

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

malva: ae, f. μαλάχη,
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.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

malva,¹⁴ æ, f., mauve [plante] : Cic. Fam. 7, 26, 2 ; Plin. 20, 222 ; Hor. O. 1, 31, 16.

Latin > German (Georges)

malva, ae, f. (μαλάχη, v. μαλακός), die Malve, bei den Alten offizinell als gelindes Abführungsmittel, Plin. 20, 222 sqq. Cic. ep. 7, 26, 2. Hor. carm. 1, 31, 16. Ov. fast. 4, 697. Mart. 3, 89, 1: vulg. Nbf. malba, Edict Diocl. 6. no. 5 u. 6.

Spanish > Greek

διάδεσμα, ἑλειομολόχη, ἄκοπος