nasturcium

nāsturcium (nasturtium), iī, n. (nach Varro sat. Men. 384 u. Plin. 19, 155 gleichs. nasitortium, v. nasus u. torqueo), eine Art Kresse, κάρδαμον, nach Sprengel die dreiblätterige Kresse (Lepidium latifolium, L.), Form -cium, Varro sat. Men. 384. Cic. de fin. 2, 92 u. Tusc. 5, 99. Petron. 138, 2. Arnob. 7, 16 extr.: Form -tium, Cels. 2, 21 u. 25. Plin. 19, 155 u. 181: poet. im Plur., Ps. Verg. moret. 85. Colum. poët. 10, 231. – ➳ Nbf. nāsturcum, Anthol. Lat. 910, 39 R.

nasturcium, nasturtium [CL] , cress. b (~ium aquaticum or sim. watercress (Rorippa nasturtiumaquaticum). c (understood as) groundsel (Senecio vulgaris). d (~ium Gallicanum or sim ‘winter cress’(Barbarea vulgaris). e (~ium hortulanum or sim garden cress (Lepidium sativum). f (~ium murilegi) cat-mint (Nepeta cataria). g (~ium porcinum or sim shepherd’s purse (Capsella bursapastoris). h (~ium pratinum) ‘smith’s cress’ (Lepidium heterophyllum). herba ~tium, þæt is cærse Leechdoms I 14; hoc narstutium, kersun Gl. AN Glasg. f. 18ra; si fluxus superfluit ‥ bonum est ut grana ~tii sumantur Gad. 6v. 1.  b recipe ‥ [libram] unam de ~cio aquatico Pop. Med. 229; sume ~cia rubea aquatica Ib. 231; hoc nausticium, A. waterkyrs WW; nastaricium, watercresses Stanbr. Vulg. 11; cardamine sive sisymbrium alterum Dioscoridae officinis est ~tium aquaticum, Anglis water cresses Turner Herb. A iii v.  c ~cium ‥ aquaticum ‥ dicitur cresso ovis, senacio ovis SB 31; senacio, ~cium aquaticum, cresso idem SB 39.  d ~ium Gallicum, Frenche carse MS BL Royal 12 E i f. 97v; c1450 Freynch cresse or wymmannys medeworth, nascorium Gallicanum OED s. v. meadwort 2.  e ~ium, tuuncressa GlC N 14; 10‥ ~ium, leaccersan, tuncers WW; hoc ~cium, kerson de cortil Gl. AN Ox. 589; ~cii ortol’ et avancie in albo vino coctis Gilb. II 118v. 1; hoc ~cium i. e. Romanice tunchers GlSid f. 147; recipe ‥ [libram] unam de ~cio ortensi Pop. Med. 229.  f ~ium mureligi, nepta idem catmyte, nept MS BL Royal 12 E i f. 97v; nepta, ~ium mureligi idem, catmynte Ib..  g ~ium porcinum, swynescressen MS BL Sloane 420 f. 118v; ~cium porcinum, i. lingua aprina MS BL Royal 12 E i f. 97v; ~cium agreste dicitur porcinum ‥ sanguinaria, A. swynescarsen wyld carsen MS BL Sloane 347 f. 90.  h ~ium pratinum, medicarse MS BL Royal 12 E i f. 97v; c1450 ~ium pratinum, medekerse MS Bodleian Ashmole 1447 p. 212.

nāsturcium (-urtium) ī, n

• nasus+TARC-, a kind of cress, C., V.