aconite

English

Etymology

From French aconit, from Latin aconitum, from Ancient Greek ἀκόνιτον (akoniton).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈækənaɪt/, X-SAMPA: /"{k@naIt/

Noun

aconite (plural aconites)

1. (botany) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
2. (toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.

Synonyms

• (herb): wolfsbane, monkshood

Translations

herb, wolfsbane

• Azeri: akonit (az)
• Catalan: acònit (ca) m, tora (ca) f
• Dutch: monnikskap (nl)
• Esperanto: akonito (eo)
• Finnish: ukonhattu (fi)
• French: aconit (fr) m
• German: Eisenhut (de)
• Hindi: बच्छनाभ (hi)
• Hungarian: sisakvirág (hu)
• Ido: akonito (io)
• Irish: dáthabha (ga) m, dáthabha dubh (ga) m
• Italian: aconito (it) m
• Japanese: トリカブト (ja) (torikabuto)
• Kazakh: уқорғасындар (kk) (uqorghasındar)
• Lithuanian: kurpelė (lt)
• Macedonian: едич (mk) (edič)
• Nepali: विष (ne)

• Norwegian: hjelm (no)

  Nynorsk: hjelm (nn)

• Persian: تاج‌الملوک (fa)
• Picard: qheudleu
• Polish: tojad (pl)
• Portuguese: acônito (pt) m
• Russian: борец (ru) (boréc) m, аконит (ru) (akonít) m
• Saterland Frisian: Poatermutse
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: једић (sh)

  Roman: jedić (sh)

• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: črijki (hsb)

• Spanish: acónito (es) m
• Swedish: stormhatt (sv)
• Turkish: kurtboğan (tr)
• Ukrainian: борець (uk) (borets')

Anagrams

• acetoin, antoeci, antœci

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Latin

Adjective

aconīte

1. vocative masculine singular of aconītus