ivy

See also Ivy

English

Ivy growing near and climbing up trees.

Etymology

From Middle English ivi, from Old English īfig, from Proto-Germanic *ibahs (compare West Flemish iefte, Low German Eiloov, Ieloof, German Efeu), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)ebʰ- (compare Welsh efwr ‘black elder’, Ancient Greek iphyon ‘plant’).

Pronunciation

• enPR: īʹvē, IPA: /ˈaɪvi/, X-SAMPA: /"aIvi/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvi

Noun

ivy (plural ivies)

1. Any of several woody, climbing, or trailing evergreen plants of the genus Hedera.

Hypernyms

• climber
• creeper

Coordinate terms

• kudzu
• vine

Derived terms

• ivied
• Ivy League
• poison ivy

Translations

plant

• Albanian: dredhkë (sq) f, hurdhe (sq) f
• Arabic: اللبلاب (ar)
• Armenian: բաղեղ (hy) (baġeġ)
• Aromanian: iadirã (rup) f
• Catalan: heura (ca) f, hedra (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏗ (chr) (ulvdi)
• Czech: břečťan (cs) m
• Dacian: arpropria
• Dutch: klimop (nl) m and n
• Esperanto: hedero (eo)
• Finnish: muratti (fi)
• French: lierre (fr) m
• Friulian: jêre
• Georgian: სურო (ka) (suro)
• German: Efeu (de) m
• Greek: κισσός (el) (kissós) m
• Hungarian: borostyán (hu)
• Italian: edera (it) f

• Latin: hedera (la) f
• Macedonian: бршлен (mk) (b'ršlen) m
• Mandarin: 常春藤 (cmn) (chángchūnténg)
• Occitan: èdra (oc) f
• Polish: bluszcz (pl) m
• Portuguese: hera (pt) f
• Romanian: iederă (ro) f
• Romansch: fegliadella (rm) f, edra (rm) f
• Russian: плющ (ru) (pljušč) m
• Sardinian: edora (sc) f, edola (sc), edera (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: eidheann (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бршљан (sh) m

  Roman: bršljan (sh) m

• Spanish: hiedra (es) f
• Swahili: mwefeu (sw), lablabu (sw)
• Swedish: murgröna (sv)
• Turkish: sarmaşık (tr)

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Translations to be checked

• Slovak: brečtan m

• Welsh: eiddew, iorwg

External links

• Ivy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hedera on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Hedera