Humulus

Translingual

Etymology

From Medieval Latin humulus, also humalus, humulo, humolo, humlo, humelo, humlonaria and many other forms, an 8th-century Latinization of Frankish *humilo, known from Old English hymele, Middle Low German hommel, Middle Dutch hommel, North Frisian Hommel, Hummel, Old Norse humli, humall, considered like *malt (“malt”) from Proto-Slavic *molto (“malt”) to be from Proto-Slavic *xъmeľь (“hop”), like Hungarian homló, komló, Eastern Mari умла (umla), Western Mari ымыла (ymyla), Erzya комля (komľa), Moksha комля (komľa, “hop”) from Proto-Turkic *kumlak or Old Iranian in view of Ossetian хуымӕллӕг (x°ymællæg, “hop”).

Proper noun

Humulus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cannabaceae – hops.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Rosales – order; Cannabaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Humulus lupulus - type species; Humulus japonicus, Humulus yunnanensis - other species

References

• Humulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Humulus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Humulus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Humulus at USDA Plants database
• Humulus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Humulus at the Catalogue of Life 
• Humulus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Humulus at The Plant List
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Humulus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 294b
• Schrader, Otto (1912) Die Anschauungen V. Hehns von der Herkunft unserer Kulturpflanzen und Haustiere im Lichte neuerer Forschung‎^[1] (in German), Berlin: Gebrüder Borntraeger, pages 37–38