safranum

• saffrānum, zafrānum, zaffrānum

Borrowed from Arabic زَعْفَرَان (zaʕfarān).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saˈfraː.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈfraː.num]

safrānum n (genitive safrānī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) saffron (Crocus sativus)
   • c. 14th century, anonymous author, Liber de Coquina, line 7:

     Porcellanas et rapas albas cum pipere et safrano et ouis et cum omnibus carnibus prepara.

     Prepare porcellanas and white beets with pepper and saffron and eggs and with all kinds of meat.

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• "safranum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “safranum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC