Καρδαμίς

cress, mustard-and-cress, nose-smart

Translated by David Whitehead13 Jul 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

4 words

A kind of herb/vegetable.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Καρδαμίς· εἶδος λαχάνου.

Betacode

*kardami/s: ei)=dos laxa/nou.

The headword kardamis is a variant of kardamon (alpha 103, alpha 561, delta 629, iota 377 [metaphor], kappa 362, sigma 1163). Confusingly to modern readers this is not the fragrant cardamum pod, which is kardamomon.