marjoram

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun aromatic Eurasian perennial
noun pungent leaves used as seasoning with meats and fowl and in stews and soups and omelets

From Old French majorane, from Medieval Latin maiōrana.

Origane, ii, 40, wild marjoram. — Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, Edmund Spenser
(See 1915, 1916, and 1918.) **Dried Marjoram. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
For him I loved so sore, I planted it with marjoram about. — The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, Giovanni Boccaccio

oregano, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, winter sweet, Origanum vulgare

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