Editing Lilium (section)

===Etymology===
The botanic name ''Lilium'' is the [[Latin]] form and is a [[Linnaean taxonomy|Linnaean]] name. The Latin name is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word {{lang|el|λείριον}} ''leírion'', generally assumed to refer to true, white lilies as exemplified by the [[Madonna lily]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hyam |first1=R. |last2=Pankhurst |first2=R.J. |year=1995 |title=Plants and their names : a concise dictionary |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-866189-4 |name-list-style=amp |page=186 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://members.shaw.ca/lilynet/netlil/id35.htm |title = Classification |website= Lily Net |access-date = 22 June 2008 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20080415193108/http://members.shaw.ca/lilynet/netlil/id35.htm| archive-date = 15 April 2008}}</ref><ref name="Liddel">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=lei/rion |title=λείριον |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George|last2=Scott|first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref> The word was borrowed from [[Coptic language|Coptic]] (dial. Fayyumic) {{transliteration|cop|hleri}}, from standard {{transliteration|cop|hreri}}, from [[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic]] {{transliteration|mis|hrry}}, from [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] {{transliteration|arz|hrṛt}} "flower".<ref> {{Citation |title=Egyptian Names |url=https://seshkemet.weebly.com/egyptian-names.html}} </ref> [[Meillet]] maintains that both the Egyptian and the Greek word are possible loans from an extinct, substratum language of the Eastern Mediterranean.{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}  {{langx|grc|κρῖνον|label=}}, {{transliteration|grc|krīnon}},  was used by the Greeks, albeit for lilies of any color.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Lily |volume=16 |page=687}}</ref>

The term "lily" has in the past been applied to numerous flowering plants, often with only superficial resemblance to the true lily, including [[water lily (disambiguation)|water lily]], [[fire lily (disambiguation)|fire lily]], [[lily of the Nile (disambiguation)|lily of the Nile]], [[calla Lily (disambiguation)|calla lily]], [[trout lily]], [[kaffir lily]], [[cobra lily (disambiguation)|cobra lily]], [[lily of the valley]], [[daylily]], [[ginger lily (disambiguation)|ginger lily]], [[Amazon lily]], [[leek lily]], [[Peruvian lily]], and others. All English translations of the Bible render the Hebrew ''shūshan'', ''shōshan'', ''shōshannā'' as "lily", but the "lily among the thorns" of ''[[Song of Songs|Song of Solomon]]'', for instance, may be the honeysuckle.<ref>{{cite book|title=Shorter Oxford English dictionary, 6th ed.|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United Kingdom|isbn=978-0-19-920687-2|page=3804}}</ref>