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mejorana

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English

Noun

mejorana (plural mejoranas)

Synonym of mejoranera (“musical instrument”)

Spanish

Origanum majorana

Etymology

From older mayorana, majorana, from Medieval Latin maiorana, q.v. (compare French marjolaine, Italian maggiorana and Portuguese manjerona).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mexoˈɾana/ [me.xoˈɾa.na]
Rhymes: -ana
Syllabification: me‧jo‧ra‧na

Noun

mejorana f (plural mejoranas)

marjoram (Origanum majorana)
Synonyms: mayorana, almoraduj
mastic thyme, Spanish wood marjoram, Thymus mastichina

See also

Origanum majorana on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es
Thymus mastichina on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

References

^ Gómez de Silva, Guido (1988) Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española (in Spanish), Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, →ISBN

Further reading

“mejorana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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