myosotis

See also: Myosotis and myosótis

English

Myosotis flowers

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin myosōtis, from Koine Ancient Greek μυοσωτίς (muosōtís, literally “ears of a mouse”), from genitive of μῦς (mûs, “mouse”) and nominative plural of οὖς (oûs, “ear”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mʌɪəˈsəʊtɪs/

Noun

myosotis (plural myosotises)

1. Any plant of the genus Myosotis, the forget-me-nots.
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 87:

     Cut all the myosotis there is.

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     How would he, then, describe Tilly's manner and appearance at breakfast ? Peregrine shrugged and said it was much as usual; she was gay and very pretty in her dirndl skirt and blue and yellow silk apron embroidered with myosotis.

Related terms

• myosote

See also

• myosotis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• myosotis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin myosōtis, from Ancient Greek μυοσωτίς (muosōtís, “mouse's ear; forget-me-not”). It is so named because the shape of the petals resembles that of a mouse's ear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjɔ.zɔ.tis/

• Audio:

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Noun

myosotis m (plural myosotis)

1. forget-me-not

Related terms

• myosotis de Bourbon
• myosotis des Alpes
• myosotis des bois
• myosotis des champs
• myosotis des forêts
• myosotis des marais
• myosotis étalé
• myosotis palustre

 

Further reading

• “myosotis” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “myosotis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.