labdanum
noun
labdanum is a noun meaning “A sticky brown resin obtained from species of rockrose, used mainly in perfume” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-B-D-A-N-U-M, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of labdanum is labdanums.
What does labdanum mean?
noun
- 1
A sticky brown resin obtained from species of rockrose, used mainly in perfume.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of labdanum
- labdanums plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is labdanum?
Labdanum appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Labdanum in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense resin:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does labdanum come from?
From Latin lādanum, from Ancient Greek λήδανον (lḗdanon, “gum”), from λήδον (lḗdon, “rockrose”), from a Semitic language; compare Akkadian 𒆷𒁷𒉡 (ladinnu).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).