The story
- translingual · borrowed fromPlumeria
- English todayplumeria
From translingual Plumeria (genus name), from the name of French botanist Charles Plumier. The genus name is a proper noun and accordingly must be capitalised; the lower case "plumeria" is informal notation, not botanical.
Words from the same roots
translingualPlumeria all →
plumericin
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.