cyclamen

See also: Cyclamen

English

Cyclamen graecum

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

2. Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.

   Synonym: sowbread

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:

     An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:

     The root of the cyclamen, sowbread, was used in ancient times as an ingredient in love potions.

   • 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:

     An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]

3. A purplish-red colour.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

Descendants

• → Japanese: シクラメン (shikuramen)
• → Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
• → Chinese: 仙客來 / 仙客来 (xiānkèlái)

Translations

A type of plant

• Albanian: burth (sq)
• Arabic: see Thesaurus:بخور مريم
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܥܲܪܛܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (ʿarṭānīṯā)

  Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: רקפתא (/⁠*raqəp̄tā⁠/), עַרְטָנִיתָא f (ʿarṭānīṯā)

• Armenian: արջտակ (hy) (arǰtak)
• Azerbaijani: iran meşənovruzu
• Belarusian: альпі́йская фія́лка f (alʹpíjskaja fijálka), цыкламе́н m (cyklamjén)
• Bulgarian: циклама f (ciklama)
• Catalan: ciclamen m, artanita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙客來 / 仙客来 (zh) (xiānkèlái), 一品冠 (yīpǐguān)

• Czech: brambořík (cs) m
• Danish: alpeviol
• Dutch: cyclaam (nl) m
• French: cyclamen (fr) m, artanite f
• Georgian: ყოჩივარდა (q̇očivarda)
• German: Alpenveilchen (de) n, Erdscheibe (de) f, Erdbrot n, Schweinsbrot n, Saubrot n
• Greek: κυκλάμινο (el) n (kyklámino)

  Ancient Greek: κυκλάμινος f or m (kukláminos), στρουθίον n (strouthíon)

• Hebrew: רַקֶּפֶת (he) (raqéfeṯ)
• Hungarian: ciklámen (hu)
• Irish: ciclimin f
• Italian: ciclamino (it) m, artanita (it) f
• Japanese: シクラメン (ja) (shikuramen), 篝火草 (かがりびそう, kagaribisō), 豚の饅頭 (ぶたのまんじゅう, buta no manjū)
• Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
• Latin: cyclamen n, cyclamīnos f (Medieval and New Latin)
• Macedonian: цикла́ма f (cikláma)
• Malayalam: സൈക്ലാമെൻ പെർസികം (saiklāmeṉ peṟsikaṁ)
• Mingrelian: ტკვარჩელია (ṭḳvarčelia)
• Mòcheno: ciclamin
• Persian: نگون‌سار ایرانی
• Polish: cyklamen (pl) m
• Portuguese: cíclame m, ciclame m
• Romanian: ciclamă (ro) f
• Russian: цикламе́н (ru) m (ciklamén)
• Serbo-Croatian: ciklama (sh), klobučac (sh) m, križalina (sh) f, skrižalina (sh) f, miholjica (sh) f
• Slovak: cyklámen m
• Spanish: ciclamen (es) m, violeta persa f, violeta de los Alpes f, ciclamino (es) m, pamporcino m, artanita f
• Swedish: cyklamen (sv) c
• Turkish: siklamen (tr), yersomunu, tavşankulağı (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طوكوز اكمكی (doñuz ekmeği)

• Welsh: bogel y ddaear f

Anagrams

• cycleman

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Latin cyclamen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.klaː.mɛn/

Noun

cyclamen n (plural cyclamens, no diminutive)

1. (botany) synonym of cyclaam

Usage notes

• This form is mostly used in technical contexts, cyclaam being the more standard choice.

Derived terms

• cyclaam (back-formation)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cyclamen

1. plural of cyclaam

French

un cyclamen

Alternative forms

• ciclamen (dated)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

cyclamen m (plural cyclamens)

1. cyclamen

Descendants

• → Turkish: siklamen

Further reading

• “cyclamen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈky.kɫa.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.kla.men]

Noun

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

1. alternative form of cyclamīnos

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	cyclamen	cyclamina
genitive	cyclaminis	cyclaminum
dative	cyclaminī	cyclaminibus
accusative	cyclamen	cyclamina
ablative	cyclamine	cyclaminibus
vocative	cyclamen	cyclamina

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: циклама (ciklama)
• → Catalan: ciclamen
• → English: cyclamen
  • → Japanese: シクラメン (shikuramen)
  • → Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
  • → Chinese: 仙客來 / 仙客来 (xiānkèlái)
• → French: cyclamen
• → German: Zyklamen
  • → Hungarian: ciklámen
• → Polish: cycklamen
• → Portuguese: ciclame
• → Russian: цикламен (ciklamen)
• → Serbo-Croatian: ciklama / циклама
• → Spanish: ciclamen
• → Swedish: cyklamen
• → Translingual: Cyclamen
• → Turkish: siklamen

References

• “cyclămĕn”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.