polion

polion

1. genitive singular of polio

• polium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πόλιον (pólion), from πολιός (poliós, “grey”, “white”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/, [ˈpɔlʲiɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.on/, [ˈpɔːlion]

polion n (genitive poliī); second declension

1. (Late Latin, botany) A strong-smelling plant, perhaps Teucrium polium.

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

• “polion”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press