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This is a list of plant names in Dacian, surviving from ancient botanical works such as
Sorin Olteanu's Project: Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - The Dacian Plant Names
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This is a list of plant names in Dacian, surviving from ancient botanical works such as Dioscorides
Pedanius Dioscorides ( grc-gre, Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, ; 40–90 AD), “the father of pharmacognosy”, was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of '' De materia medica'' (, On Medical Material) —a 5-vo ...
' ''De Materia Medica
(Latin name for the Greek work , , both meaning "On Medical Material") is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The five-volume work was written between 50 and 70 CE by Pedanius Dioscorides, ...
'' ( abb. MM) and Pseudo-Apuleius' ''Herbarius'' (abb. Herb.). Dacian plant names are one of the primary sources left to us for studying the Dacian language
Dacian is an extinct language, generally believed to be Indo-European, that was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity.
In the 1st century, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possib ...
, an ancient language of South Eastern Europe. This list also includes a Bessian
The Bessi (; grc, Βῆσσοι, or , ) were a Thracian tribe that inhabited the upper valley of the Hebros and the lands between the Haemus and Rhodope mountain ranges in historical Thrace.
Geography
The exact geographic location of the B ...
plant name and a Moesian plant name, both neighboring Daco-Thracian
The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied ...
tribes.
A separate list exists containing Romanian words of possible Dacian origin that form the Eastern Romance substratum.
See also
*Dacian language
Dacian is an extinct language, generally believed to be Indo-European, that was spoken in the Carpathian region in antiquity.
In the 1st century, it was probably the predominant language of the ancient regions of Dacia and Moesia and possib ...
* List of Dacian words
* List of Romanian words of possible Dacian origin
The Eastern Romance languages developed from the Proto-Romanian language, which in turn developed from the Vulgar Latin spoken in a region of the Balkans which has not yet been exactly determined, but is generally agreed to have been a region ...
* List of Dacian names
References
External links
Sorin Olteanu's Project: Linguae Thraco-Daco-Moesorum - The Dacian Plant Names
{{Dacia topics Dacian language Dacian plant names Flora of Romania