ceresia

Meaning

1. Late Latinfemininecherry
   200s, Quintus Gargilius Martialis De pomis seu medicina ex pomis 16 ed. Angelo Mai Operis deperditi de hortis Fragmenta ex codicibus Neapolitano et Romano cum scholiis palaeographicis et adnotationibus Rome 1846 p. 76 = Classici auctores e Vaticanicis codicibus editi. Tomus III Rome 1831 p. 422The fresh fruit from the cherry moistens the maw and stimulates; dry it desiccates and draws back: the fresh fruit is bad for the stomach and the dry one good. In this fruit we believe to be three virtues. In some the taste is bitter, in some sour, in some sweet. The bitter ones constrict the belly, strengthen the stomach. The sour ones are said to fit stomachs abundating in phlegm: for they desiccate more and cut off the thickness of the teeth and humour of the mouth. The sweet ones are bad for the stomach. However the Praenestinian ones flow faster. Their gum, held in the mouth and swallowed, covers the arteries, constrains the oldest cough: drunk with unmixed wine it breaks the calculi.

Declension

Origins

1. Ancient Greek κερᾰσός(kerăsós)
2. Latinceresia

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)? Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon) Ancient Greek κερᾰ́σῐον (kerắsĭon)bor. Latin cerasium Late Latin ceresium Latin ceresia From the neuter plural of Late Latin ceresium, assimilated form of Latin cerasium, borrowed from Ancient Greek κερᾰ́σῐον (kerắsĭon, “cherry (fruit)”), from κερᾰσός (kerăsós) + -ῐον (-ĭon).

In English words that came into English from ceresia

• cherryceresia
• ceriseceresia