A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Vegetabile; “in a restricted sense is a kitchen garden plant, anything cultivated for culinary purposes” (Jackson); “a plant, not used technically; a usu. herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, potato, bean, or turnip) that is cultivated for an edible part which is used as a table vegetable; an edible part of a plant .. used for human food” (after WIII): vegetabile,-is (s.n.III), acc. sg. vegetabile, dat. & abl.sg. vegetabili, nom. & acc. pl. vegetabilia, gen. pl. vegetabilium, dat. & abl. pl. vegetabilibus: a plant, a vegetable; holus,-eris (s.n.III), q.v. also olus,-eris (s.n.III), q.v. indicates 'kitchen or garden herbs of any kind; vegetables;’ see plant;

Vegetabile,-is (s.n.III): a plant, vegetable; “de vegetabilibus, title of work by Aristotle” (Ashdown);

             singular         plural      
Nom.    vegetabile      vegetabilia     
Gen.     vegetabilis     vegetabilium 
Dat.     vegetabili      vegetabilibus 
Acc.     vegetabile      vegetabilia 
Abl.      vegetabili      vegetabilibus

NOTE: this is an i-stem neuter noun.

- ut … ait Aristoteles in libro de vegetabilis, ”as Aristotle says in his book on plants’ (in Ashdown).

- quedam vegetabilia sunt per ramos, quedam per semina, quedam nascuntur sine semine et sine plantacione (Bacon V 120; in Ashdown); there are certain plants that grow by means of branches, certain ones by seeds, some grow without seeds and without planting. [quedam = quaedam; plantacio = plantation,-onis (s.f.III)].

- omnia vegetabilium genera supra recensita, quae a vocabulis graccis originem ducunt, syllabis quinqué constant (Swartz), all of the genera of plants reviewed above, which derive their origin from Greek words, contain five syllables [e.g. ATROZOPHYTUM, PHRYGANOPHYTUM, SPHAEROOPHYTUM].

- Karl Ludwig Willdenow: “The tendril (cirrhus) is a filiform body, which serves for attaching plants to some support. Climbing plants (vegetabilia scandentia) are furnished with these.”

- [Necker] Vegetabilium fructificationis partes, sequentes sunt: 1. Bractea ... 41. Peridroma...., the following are the parts of plant fructifications: 1. the Bract ... 41. the Peridrome....

- [moss] frigore ingruente, omniumque vegetabilium fibris rigentibus muscum nullum florere extra dubium est (Brid.), when the cold is coming on, and when the fibers of all plants are hardened [i.e. rigid with the cold] then it is beyond doubt that no moss is flowering.

Vulva,-ae (s.f.I) vegetabilium [gen. pl.], the vulva of plants, “(obsol.) a Linnean name for the stigma” (Lindley); see volva.

Vegetabile (for eating): vegetabile oleraceum (adj.A), planta (s.f.I) oleracea (oleraceus implies 'fit for the garden', fit for eating).

resembling or pertaining to vegetables: holeraceus,-a,-um (adj.A), oleraceus,-a,-um (adj.A).

planted with vegetables: (h)oleratus,-a,-um (part.A) [> L. (h)olero,-avi,-atum, 1. to plant with vegetables].

(H)Olusculum a small herb or vegetable; a little cabbage: (H)Olusculum,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. (h)olusculo.