anemone
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + feminine patronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of the wind”).[1]
Or from Phoenician *naxmon, akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʾiq an-nuʿmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).[2][3][4]
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Noun[edit]
anemone (plural anemones)
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- A sea anemone.
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Translations[edit]
any plant of genus anemone
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sea anemone — see sea anemone
References[edit]
- ^ "anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
- ^ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
- ^ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
- ^ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemone m (plural anemoni)
- anemone
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); first declension
Inflection[edit]
First declension, Greek type.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | anemōnē | anemōnae |
| genitive | anemōnēs | anemōnārum |
| dative | anemōnae | anemōnīs |
| accusative | anemōnēn | anemōnās |
| ablative | anemōnē | anemōnīs |
| vocative | anemōnē | anemōnae |
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- anemone in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anemone in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- anemone in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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