farfarum

Etymology
, presumed a borrowing from another Italian language.

Nikolaev proposes a derivation from, a compound of  and  also found in 🇨🇬. The name may be assumed to arise from the flowers' radiant shape. The -a- from the second syllable would then stem from assimilation to the first syllable.

Noun

 * 1) coltsfoot

Usage notes
The only attested forms, bar the feminine by-forms, are accusative singular and  in Pliny’s  24, 135 and genitive singular  in Plautus’s  478. As these endings syncretize more than one possible lemma form, it has been posited variously by lexicographers, and borrowed by taxonomists, as either masculine or neuter  or masculine.