costus

English

Costus pulverulentus. Serapiqui, Costa Rica.

Saussurea costus. Uttarakhand, India.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin costus, from Ancient Greek κόστος (kóstos), from Sanskrit कुष्ठ (kuṣṭha).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒstəs/

Noun

costus (plural costuses)

1. A perennial tropical herbaceous plant of the genus Costus (family Costaceae).
2. Saussurea costus, a composite growing on the Himalayas in the vicinity of Kashmir, or its root.

Derived terms

• costusroot

Translations

perennial tropical herbaceous plant of the genus Costus

• Arabic: قُسْط (ar) (qusṭ)
• Armenian: քուշտ (kʿušt)

Saussurea costus

• Arabic: قُسْط (ar) (qusṭ)
• Greek:

  Ancient: κόστος (kóstos)

Further reading

• Costus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Costus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Costus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Saussurea costus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Saussurea costus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Saussurea costus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• “costus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “costus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Putchock in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana.

Anagrams

• SCOTUS, Scouts, custos, scouts

Welsh

Etymology

From cost +‎ -us.

Adjective

costus (feminine singular costus, plural costus, equative mor gostus, comparative mwy costus, superlative mwyaf costus)

1. costly, expensive, dear

   Synonyms: prid, drud

Derived terms

• costusrwydd

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
costus	gostus	nghostus	chostus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “costus”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies