Editing Cardamom (section)

==Etymology==
The word ''cardamom'' is derived from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|cardamōmum}},<ref>{{citation |url= https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dcardamomum |title= cardamomum |first1= Charlton T. |last1= Lewis |first2= Charles |last2= Short |work= A Latin Dictionary |publisher= Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University |access-date= 20 February 2021 |archive-date= 28 September 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210928200709/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dcardamomum |url-status= live }}</ref> as a [[Latinisation (literature)|Latinisation]] of the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{lang|grc|καρδάμωμον}} ({{Transliteration|grc|kardámōmon}}),<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkarda%2Fmwmon |script-title=el:καρδάμωμον |language=grc |first1=Henry George |last1=Liddell |first2=Robert |last2=Scott |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024012517/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkarda%2Fmwmon |url-status=live }}</ref> a compound of {{lang|grc|κάρδαμον}} ({{Transliteration|grc|kárdamon}}, "[[Garden cress|cress]]")<ref>{{citation |title=κάρδαμον |first1=Henry George |last1=Liddell |first2=Robert |last2=Scott |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dka%2Frdamon |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017082936/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dka%2Frdamon |url-status=live }}</ref> and {{lang|grc|ἄμωμον}} ({{Transliteration|grc|ámōmon}}), of unknown origin.<ref>{{citation |title=ἄμωμον |language=grc |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library at Tufts University |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Fmwmon |access-date=20 February 2021 |archive-date=6 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220406122104/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Da%29%2Fmwmon |url-status=live }}</ref>

The earliest attested form of the word {{lang|grc|κάρδαμον}} signifying "cress" is the [[Mycenaean Greek]] {{Transliteration|gmy|ka-da-mi-ja}}, written in [[Linear B]] syllabic script,<ref>[http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=370 "ka-da-mi-ja"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110515072743/http://www.palaeolexicon.com/default.aspx?static=12&wid=370 |date=15 May 2011 }} at Palaeolexicon</ref> in the list of flavorings on the spice tablets found among palace archives in the House of the Sphinxes in [[Mycenae]].<ref>{{citation |editor-last=Chadwick |editor-first=John |year=1963 |title=The Mycenae Tablets, 3 |work=Transactions of the [[American Philosophical Society]] |edition=New Series |volume=52 |issue=7}}</ref>

The modern genus name ''Elettaria'' is derived from the root {{Transliteration|dra|ēlam}} attested in [[Dravidian language]]s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burrow |first1=Thomas |author-link=Thomas Burrow |last2=Emeneau |first2=M. B. |author-link2=Murray Barnson Emeneau |url=http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:912.burrow |title=A Dravidian Etymological Dictionary |access-date=2014-08-02 |archive-date=22 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622073343/http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:912.burrow |url-status=dead }}</ref>