Tagetes

See also: tagetes

Translingual

Tagetes tenuifolia

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tagetes, tagentes, tagantes, a Berber borrowing, originally meaning the pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum), compare Kabyle aguntas (“pellitory of Spain”), Moroccan Amazigh [script needed] (takenṭast), [script needed] (taženṭist), Tashelhit تكندست, and Arabic passed from Berber تَاغَنْدَسْت (tāḡandast, “pellitory of Spain”); by confusion also meaning the feverfew Tanacetum parthenium – the words in the word family tansy are possibly related.
It was only in 1535 that Charles V with his African campaign, hit by the brilliance of their colours, introduced the first Tagetes species cultivated in Europe. Those at first bore many and sundry designations relating to their African or South American origins, but later a connection with the fabled pulcritude of the Etruscan divinity Tages helped to cement this genus with this name, which in botanical literature was first erected, with this mythological explanation, by Leonhart Fuchs 1542 (in De historia stirpium commentarii insignes).

Proper noun

Tagetes f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – flowering plants native to the New World often called marigolds (along with those of the related genus Calendula).

Hypernyms

• (tribe): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Tageteae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tagetes patula - type species

Descendants

• → English: tagete, tagetes
• → French: tagète

References

• Tagetes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Tagetes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Tagetes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Tagetes”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 626b–627a
• Langkavel, Bernhard (1866) Botanik der späteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhunderte (in German), Berlin: F. Berggold, page 73
• Löw, Immanuel (1881) Aramæische Pflanzennamen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 426
• Schuchardt, Hugo (1909) “Zur Wortgeschichte: 1. Lat. buda; tamarix; mlat. tagantes”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie‎^[2] (in German), volume 33, Halle: Max Niemeyer, pages 351–352
• “Les Tagètes: des plantes médicinales, aphrodisiaques et de vision.”, in Xochipelli, 2017 December 14