O CERCETARE ASUPRA FITONIMELOR ROMÂNEȘTI CREATE CU AJUTORUL TERMENULUI DE ORIGINE LATINĂ „IARBĂ” (I).

Our paper aims to reveal an inventory, an interpretation and a statistical analysis of Romanian names of plants which implicates the term „iarbă” (herb, grass), spread through the botanical terminology, a phenomenon which, as considered by E. Coşeriu is not enough highlighted (given that the individual speaker became creator of language / poetry whenever he named a flower. Botanical popular terminology has primarily a practical value, designating, distinguishing and categorizing elements of the plant kingdom within the given natural reign, but also has a high theoretical significance, especially for linguists, both by the ethimons to which they send back and by the metaphorical meanings the phytonims mostly have. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]