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puleium

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Menander, Monostichoi, 543

Latin > English

puleium puleii N N :: fleabane, pennyroyal

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

pūlēĭum: or pūlĕgĭum (Ser. Samm. 1, 18; Cels. 2, 32, 2), ii, n.,
I fleabane, fleawort, pennyroyal: mentha pulegium, Linn.; Plin. 20, 14, 54, § 152; Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Col. 12, 35 fin.; 12, 57, 1; Pall. 12, 22, 1; Mart. 12, 32, 19; Ser. Samm. 1, 18.—On account of its pleasant odor, transf.: ad cujus rutam pulegio mihi tui sermonis utendum, i. e. the pleasantness of your discourse, Cic. Fam. 16, 23, 2.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

pūleium (-lejum), ī, n., pouliot [plante aromatique, du genre des menthes] : Cic. Div. 2, 33 || [fig.] odeur agréable, douceur : Cic. Fam. 16, 23, 2, v. ruta.

Latin > German (Georges)

pūlēium, ī, n. u. pūlēgium, iī, n. (βλήχων), der Polei, das Flöhkraut (Mentha pulegium, L.), eine wohlriechende Pflanze, α) Form pulēium, Cic. de div. 2, 33. Colum. 12, 7, 1 u.a. Sen. contr. 7. praef. § 3. Mart. 12, 32, 19. Plin. 2, 108. Pallad. 12, 22, 1. Ser. Samm. 18 u. 599. Arnob. 7, 16. Apic. 4, 179. – bildl., ad cuius rutam puleio mihi tui sermonis utendum est, der rauhen Sprache des Mannes gegenüber muß ich deine sanfte Tonart in Anwendung bringen, Cic. ep. 16, 23, 2. – β) Form -egium, Cels. 2, 32 u. 33 D. Plin. Val. 1, 1. fol. 165 (a), 23.

Latin > Chinese

puleium, ii. n. :: 小薄荷。— sermonis 温文。

Translations

Mentha pulegium

Basque: txortalo; Bulgarian: полски джоджен; Catalan: poliol; Estonian: kirbumünt; Finnish: puolanminttu; Galician: poexo; Georgian: ომბალო; German: Polei, Poleiminze, Polei-Minze, Flohkraut; Greek: φλησκούνι; Ancient Greek: ἄλβολον, ἀνακτητικόν, ἀρσενάκανθον, βλησκούνιον, βλῆχρος, βληχώ, βλήχων, βληχώνιον, γλάχων, γλήχων; Hungarian: csombormenta; Irish: borógach; Latin: puleium, pulegium; Persian: پونه‎, رافونه‎; Russian: мята болотная, мята блошница; Spanish: poleo; Turkish: yarpuz