agrimony

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English egremoyne, from a conflation of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English agrimonia and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French agremoine (from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French agremoine, variant of aegremone), both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin agrimōnia, metathesized from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin argemōnia (“a kind of poppy”) (probably by association with ager, agri- (“field”)), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “, prickly poppy”), probably from ἄργεμον (árgemon, “leucoma”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.mən.i/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/

Noun

agrimony (plural agrimonies)

1. Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.
2. Any of several unrelated plants of a similar appearance.

Translations

plant of the genus Agrimonia

• Afrikaans: akkermonie f
• Catalan: agrimònia f
• Czech: řepík m
• Dutch: agrimonie (nl)
• Esperanto: agrimonio
• Finnish: verijuuri (fi)
• French: aigremoine (fr) f
• German: Odermennig (de) m
• Ido: agrimonio (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: airgeadán m, marbhdhraighean m
• Italian: agrimonia f
• Kazakh: ошаған (oşağan)
• Old French: aegremone f
• Polish: rzepik m
• Portuguese: agrimónia f (Portugal), agrimônia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: turiță-mare (ro) f
• Spanish: agrimonia (es) f

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