soldier
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water soldier (plant)
2 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Relation type | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
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| type | Borrowing | |
| language 1 | Ancient Greek | |
| language 2 | New Latin | |
| lexeme | στρατιώτης | |
| meaning 1 | soldier, warrior | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | soldier (Stratiotes plant) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | Linnaeus C. Species plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. — Holmiae : L. Salvius, 1753 |
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From the Greek στρατιώτης 'soldier', but also the name of aquatic plants; Disocorides and Pliny (who calls it Stratiotes) mention a vulnerary plant that grows after the floods of the Nile, which has been identified with Pista aloides (which does not have ensiform leaves; the connection could be given by the property of stagnating wounds). In the Renaissance the name was applied to many different plants, both aquatic and terrestrial, in particular to Achillea millefolium (Stratiotes terrestris, Stratiotes millefolium in Mattioli). The identification with Stratiotes aloides, which has erect ensiform leaves, is due to Dodoens (1554) and was made by Linnaeus, through Lobelius who named the plant Stratiotes militaris aloides