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From taxonomic name Allium, from Latin allium.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæliəm/
• Rhymes: -æliəm

allium (plural alliums or allia)

1. Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic.

The English plural alliums is now preferred, over the Latinate allia.^[1]

• allium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• allium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:allium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

See ālium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈal.li.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈal.li.um]

allium n (genitive alliī or allī); second declension

1. late form of ālium (found since 1st century CE)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “allium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “allium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “allium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers