storax

See also: Storax

English

Styrax officinalis, the type species of the genus Styrax

Resin

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English storace, storage, storax, storaxe, storrax, from Latin storax.

Noun

storax (countable and uncountable, plural storaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Styrax of trees and shrubs.

   Synonym: styrax

2. The resin of the oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis), formerly used as a stimulating expectorant.

   Synonym: rose mallows

   • 1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:

     Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

     Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.

Translations

any member of the genus Styrax

• Arabic: أَصْطَرَك m (ʔaṣṭarak), أَسْطَرَك m (ʔasṭarak)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܐܣܛܘܪܟܐ m (ʾesṭurkā), ܐܣܛܘܪܩܐ m (ʾesṭurqā), ܣܛܘܪܟܐ m (sṭurkā)

• Armenian: ստյուրակ (hy) (styurak), ստյուրաքս (styurakʻs), շեր (hy) (šer)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Coptic: ⲥⲧⲩⲣⲁⲝ (sturaks)
• Finnish: storaksi (fi)
• German: Storaxbaum m
• Greek:

  Ancient: στύραξ m (stúrax)

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: styrax m, storax m
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: styrak m, styrakowiec m
• Portuguese: estoraque (pt) m
• Russian: сти́ракс (ru) m (stíraks)
• Serbo-Croatian: stìraks (sh) m, dìviza (sh) f, divíza (sh) f, dìvuza f
• Spanish: estoraque (es) m
• Swedish: storax c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• taxors

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin storax, variant of styrax, from Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstoː.rɑks/

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• Hyphenation: sto‧rax
• Rhymes: -oːrɑks

Noun

storax m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of styrax

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈs̠t̪ɔräks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsto.raks/, [ˈst̪ɔːräks]

Noun

storax m (genitive storacis); third declension

1. alternative form of styrax

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	storax	storacēs
genitive	storacis	storacum
dative	storacī	storacibus
accusative	storacem	storacēs
ablative	storace	storacibus
vocative	storax	storacēs

Derived terms

• storacinus

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French [Term?] or Latin storax.

Noun

storax n (uncountable)

1. storax (resin)

Declension

declension of storax (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) storax	storaxul
genitive/dative	(unui) storax	storaxului
vocative	storaxule