aconite

English

Etymology

From French aconit, from Latin aconītum, from Ancient Greek ἀκόνιτον (akóniton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.kə.naɪt/

Noun

aconite (countable and uncountable, plural aconites)

1. The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

     Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.

2. (toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.

Synonyms

• (herb): wolfsbane, monkshood

Derived terms

• winter aconite

Descendants

• → Irish: acainít

Translations

herb wolfsbane

• Arabic: بِيش m (bīš)
• Azerbaijani: akonit
• Bulgarian: акони́т m (akonít), самакитка f (samakitka), шлемче n (šlemče), омаяк m (omajak)
• Catalan: acònit m, tora f
• Czech: oměj (cs) m
• Dutch: monnikskap (nl)
• Esperanto: akonito
• Finnish: ukonhattu (fi)
• French: aconit (fr) m, napel (fr) m, tue-loup (fr) m
• German: Eisenhut (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἀκόνιτον n (akóniton), λυκοκτόνον n (lukoktónon)

• Hindi: बच्छनाभ (bacchanābh)
• Hungarian: sisakvirág (hu)
• Ido: akonito (io)
• Irish: dáthabha m, dáthabha dubh m, fuath an mhadra m
• Italian: aconito m
• Japanese: 鳥兜 (torikabuto), トリカブト (ja) (torikabuto); 洋種鳥兜 (yōshu torikabuto) (specifically the Western variety)
• Kazakh: уқорғасындар (uqorğasyndar)
• Korean: 투구꽃 (tugukkot)
• Latin: aconītum n
• Lithuanian: kurpelė
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• Macedonian: едич (edič)
• Nepali: विष (viṣ)
• Norwegian: hjelm (no)

  Nynorsk: hjelm

• Old English: þung
• Persian: آقونیطون (âqonitun), تاج‌الملوک (tâj-olmoluk)
• Picard: qheudleu
• Polish: tojad (pl) m, akonit (pl) m
• Portuguese: acónito (pt) m (Portugal), acônito (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: aconit (ro) m, omag (ro) m
• Russian: боре́ц (ru) m (boréc), акони́т (ru) m (akonít)
• Saterland Frisian: Poatermutse
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јѐдић m

  Latin: jèdić (sh) m

• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: črijki

• Spanish: acónito (es) m
• Swahili: sumu ya mbwa-mwitu
• Swedish: stormhatt (sv) c
• Tagalog: akolito (tl)
• Turkish: kurtboğan (tr)
• Ukrainian: боре́ць (uk) (borécʹ)
• Welsh: llysiau'r blaidd m pl
• Westrobothnian: ,

Anagrams

• Atencio, ace into, acetoin, acinote, anoetic, antoeci, antœci

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) aconīte

1. vocative masculine singular of aconītus