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

Synonyms

• (herb): wolfsbane, monkshood

Descendants

• → Irish: acainít

Translations

herb wolfsbane

• Arabic: بِيش m (bīš)
• Azerbaijani: akonit
• Bulgarian: аконѝт m (akonìt), 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
• Ido: akonito (io)
• Interlingue:
• 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
• Macedonian: едич (edič)
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• Nepali: विष (viṣ)
• Norwegian: hjelm (no)

  Nynorsk: hjelm

• Persian: آقونیطون (âqonitun), تاج‌الملوک (tâj-olmoluk)
• Picard: qheudleu
• Polish: tojad (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