anemone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”).[1]
Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).[2][3][4]
Pronunciation[edit]
Often metathesized as IPA(key): /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/
Noun[edit]
anemone (plural anemones)
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 23:
- Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all […]
- A sea anemone.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
any plant of genus Anemone
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sea anemone — see sea anemone
References[edit]
- ^ "anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
- ^ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
- ^ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
- ^ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).
Noun[edit]
anemone f (plural anemones)
- (botany) anemone
- (zoology) sea anemone
- Synonym: anemone de mar
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “anemone” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemone m (plural anemoni)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmoː.neː/, [änɛˈmoːneː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmo.ne/, [äneˈmɔːne]
Noun[edit]
anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | anemōnē | anemōnae |
| Genitive | anemōnēs | anemōnārum |
| Dative | anemōnae | anemōnīs |
| Accusative | anemōnēn | anemōnās |
| Ablative | anemōnē | anemōnīs |
| Vocative | anemōnē | anemōnae |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “anemone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “anemone”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemone f (plural anemones)
- Alternative form of anémona
Further reading[edit]
- “anemone”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- en:Anemoneae tribe plants
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