baldmoney

English[edit]

Apparently a corruption of Latin valdē bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.

baldmoney (uncountable)

Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family.
Synonyms: meu, meon, meum, spignel, bearwort
(obsolete) A Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort.
- 1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, Chapter 100: Of Felwoort, or Baldmoney , pages 350–352:
  Gentius king of Illyria was the first founder of this herbe, and the first that used it in medicine, for which cause it was called Gentian after his own name: in Greek, γεντιανή, which name also the apothecaries retaine unto this daie, and call it Gentiana: it is named in English Felwoort Gentian; Bitterwoort; Baldmoyne, and Baldmoney.

Meum athamanticum

Arabic: مُو m (mū), شِبِتّ بَرِّيّ m (šibitt barriyy)
Bulgarian: див копър m (div kopǎr)
Catalan: meu (ca) m
Czech: koprník m
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: bergvenkel f
Finnish: karhunjuuri (fi)
French: baudremoine (fr) f, fenouil de montagne (fr) m, fenouil des Alpes (fr) m, cerfeuil des Alpes (fr) m, méum (fr) m
German: Bärwurz (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: μῆον n (mêon)
Italian: finocchio delle Alpi m, finocchio alpino m, finocchiella f
Latin: mēum (la) n
Polish: wszewłoga górska f
Romanian: brie (ro) f
Serbo-Croatian: štŕbac (sh) m (Croatia)