O cercetare asupra fitonimelor românești create cu ajutorul termenului de origine latină „iarbă” II
A Research on Romanian Phytonims Created with the Latin Originated Term “Iarbă” (Herb) II

Summary/Abstract: My paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistical analysis of Romanian names of plants which implicate the term „iarbă” (herb, grass), spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, according to E. Coşeriu, has not been sufficiently highlighted (given that the individual speaker became a creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower). Botanical popular terminology has a primarily practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both through the ethimons that they point to and through the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have.

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