cicuta

See also: Cicuta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicūta.

Noun

cicuta (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:

     cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].

Anagrams

• Ciutac

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Catalan

Alternative forms

• ceguda

Etymology

From Latin cicūta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈku.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [siˈku.ta]

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutes)

1. hemlock

Further reading

• “cicuta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cicuta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cicuta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cicūta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicute)

1. hemlock

Anagrams

• cucita

Further reading

• cicuta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/, [t͡ʃiˈkuːt̪ä]

Noun

cicūta f (genitive cicūtae); first declension

1. a plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or
2. the juice of the hemlock given to prisoners as poison
3. a pipe or flute made from the stalks or stems of the hemlock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cicūta	cicūtae
Genitive	cicūtae	cicūtārum
Dative	cicūtae	cicūtīs
Accusative	cicūtam	cicūtās
Ablative	cicūtā	cicūtīs
Vocative	cicūta	cicūtae

Derived terms

• cicūticen

Descendants

• → Albanian: kukutë
• → Andalusian Arabic: جقوطة (čuqūṭa, čaqūṭa)
• Aromanian: cucutã
• Catalan: ceguda, cicuta
• French: ciguë
• Galician: cicuta, cegude
• → Greek: κικούτα (kikoúta), κιρκούτα (kirkoúta)
• Italian: cicuta
• Old French: ceuë

• Portuguese: cegude, cicuta, cigude
• Romanian: cucută
• Russian: цику́та (cikúta)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ку̀кута

  Latin script: kùkuta

• Sicilian: cicuta
• Spanish: cicuta

References

• “cicuta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cicuta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cicuta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”). Compare the inherited doublet cegude.

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant of genus Conium)

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈkuta/ [θiˈku.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈkuta/ [siˈku.t̪a]

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock

Further reading

• “cicuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014