Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lovage

Lovage , noun

[French livèche, from Latin levisticum, ligusticum, a plant indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, Liguria a country of Cisalpine Gaul.]

(Botany) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant.