anemone
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of the wind”).[1]
Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), 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]
Pronunciation[edit]
Often metathesized as IPA(key): /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/
Noun[edit]
anemone (plural anemones)
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:
- Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all […]
- A sea anemone.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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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).
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).
Noun[edit]
anemone f (plural anemones)
- (botany) anemone
- (zoology) sea anemone
- Synonym: anemone de mar
Further reading[edit]
- “anemone” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemone m (plural anemoni)
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Further reading[edit]
- anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmoː.neː/, [änɛˈmoːneː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmo.ne/, [äneˈmɔːne]
Noun[edit]
anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun (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 and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “anemone”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anemone f (plural anemones)
- Alternative form of anémona
Further reading[edit]
- “anemone”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁-
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- Rhymes:English/ɛməni
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- en:Anemoneae tribe plants
- en:Flowers
- en:Sea anemones
- Catalan terms borrowed from Latin
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- ca:Botany
- ca:Zoology
- ca:Buttercup family plants
- ca:Cnidarians
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɛmone
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- it:Buttercup family plants
- it:Flowers
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- Rhymes:Spanish/one
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