nectar

See also néctar

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (nektar, “nourishment of the gods”), from νέκ (“death”) (see necro-) + ταρ (“overcoming”), from Proto-Indo-European *tere (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈnɛk.tə/
• (US) IPA: /ˈnɛk.təɹ/

Noun

nectar (plural nectars)

1. (chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.

2. (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]
3. (botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• nectarine
• nectarous
• nectary

Translations

drink of the gods

• Catalan: nèctar (ca) m
• Czech: nektar (cs) m
• Danish: nektar (da) c
• Dutch: nectar (nl), nektar (nl)
• Finnish: nektari (fi)
• German: Nektar (de) m
• Greek: νέκταρ (el) (néktar) n

• Hungarian: istenek itala (hu), nektár (hu)
• Italian: nettare (it) m
• Japanese: 神酒 (みき, miki; or しんしゅ, shinshu)
• Polish: nektar (pl) m
• Russian: нектар (ru) (n'ektár) m
• Spanish: néctar (es)

sweet liquid secreted by flowers

• Catalan: nèctar (ca) m
• Czech: nektar (cs) m
• Danish: nektar (da) c
• Dutch: nectar (nl), nektar (nl)
• Finnish: mesi (fi)
• German: Nektar (de) m
• Greek: νέκταρ (el) (néktar) n

• Hungarian: virágméz (hu)
• Italian: nettare (it) m
• Japanese: 花蜜 (かみつ, kamitsu)
• Navajo: chʼilátah baa hózhónii bijeeh
• Polish: nektar (pl) m
• Russian: нектар (ru) (n'ektár) m
• Spanish: néctar (es)

any delicious drink

• Catalan: nèctar (ca) m
• Danish: nektar (da) c, saftevand (da) n
• Dutch: nectar (nl), nektar (nl)
• Finnish: nektari (fi), linnunmaito (fi), mehu (fi)
• German: Nektar (de) m
• Greek: νέκταρ (el) (néktar) n

• Hungarian: nektár (hu)
• Italian: nettare (it) m
• Japanese: 美酒 (びしゅ, bishu)
• Polish: nektar (pl) m
• Russian: нектар (ru) (n'ektár) m

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Translations to be checked

• Mandarin: 花蜜 huāmì (liquid secreted by flowers)
• Esperanto: nektaro
• French: nectar (fr) m
• Hebrew: צוף (he)
• Ido: nektaro
• Italian: nettare m (1,2,3)
• Japanese: 花蜜 (かみつ, kamitu) (liquid secreted by flowers); 蜜

• Lithuanian: nektaras
• Portuguese: néctar
• Spanish: néctar m
• Swedish: nektar
• Telugu: మకరందం (te)(makaramdam)
• Turkish: nektar

See also

• ambrosia
• pollen

References

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Anagrams

• canter
• carnet
• centra
• Cretan
• recant
• trance

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French

Noun

nectar m (plural nectars)

1. nectar (all meanings)

Derived terms

• nectaire

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Latin

Noun

nectar (genitive nectaris); n, third declension

1. nectar

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	nectar	nectaria
genitive	nectaris	nectarium
dative	nectarī	nectaribus
accusative	nectar	nectaria
ablative	nectarī	nectaribus
vocative	nectar	nectaria

Verb

nectar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of nectō