colchicum

See also: Colchicum

English

Colchicum speciosum

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Colchicum, from Latin colchicum, from Ancient Greek κολχικόν (kolkhikón).

Noun

colchicum (countable and uncountable, plural colchicums)

1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
2. (uncountable, medicine) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 87:

     Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.

Related terms

• colchicine

Translations

Colchicum-genus plant

• Arabic: لَحْلَاح m (laḥlāḥ)
• Armenian: շնդեղ (hy) (šndeġ)
• Azerbaijani: vaxtsızçiçək
• Belarusian: познацве́т m (poznacvjét), восе́ннік m (vosjénnik)
• Bulgarian: мразовец m (mrazovec)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 秋水仙 (zh) (qiūshuǐxiān)

• Czech: ocún (cs) m
• Estonian: sügislill
• Finnish: myrkkylilja (fi)
• French: colchique (fr) m
• German: Zeitlose f
• Hebrew: סתוונית f (sitvanít)
• Hungarian: kikerics (hu)
• Icelandic: haustlilja f
• Ido: kolchiko (io)
• Kazakh: лапыз (lapyz)
• Polish: zimowit m inan
• Portuguese: cólquico m
• Russian: безвре́менник (ru) m (bezvrémennik), осе́нник m (osénnik), ко́лхикум (ru) m (kólxikum)
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: pózdnička f

• Spanish: cólquico (es) m
• Turkish: acı çiğdem (tr), çakal çiğdemi
• Ukrainian: пізньоцві́т m (piznʹocvít)

Latin

Adjective

colchicum

1. inflection of colchicus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular