![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Our paper demonstrates the Latin origins of the Romanian language and Latin originated terms spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Botanical popular terminology has primarily a practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both by the ethimons to which they send back and by the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have. ![]() The conclusion of our work is that once known, botanical lexicon of a specific region is not only a thesaurus but also a document of the resident population and places of the past. Coşeriu is not enough highlighted (given that the individual speaker became creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower. Our paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistic of romanian names of plants which implicates the word "zmeu", spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Like in other folkloric creations, in our ethnobotany this being has evil representations. Many of the romanian phytonyms are directly related to the dragon ("zmeu"). ![]()
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