hibiscum

• ebiscum, ibiscum

From Ancient Greek ἰβίσκος (ibískos, “marsh mallow”), probably from Gaulish or another Celtic language; however, no Celtic cognates are attested, so the Gaulish word may simply be a medium for a regional, Pre-Celtic or Pre-Italic substrate plant name.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪˈbiːs.kũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [iˈbis.kum]

hibīscum n (genitive hibīscī); second declension

1. marsh mallow

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• → Proto-West Germanic: *ībisku (see there for further descendants)

• “hibiscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hibiscum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hibiscum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hibiscum”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN