cyclamen

See also: Cyclamen

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamino.

Noun

cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

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

   Synonym: sowbread

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     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.

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

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

Translations

A type of plant

• Arabic: many, see Thesaurus:بخور مريم
• Aramaic:

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

  Classical Syriac: ܥܲܪܛܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ f (ʿarṭānīṯā)

• Bulgarian: циклама f (ciklama)
• Catalan: ciclamen m, artanita f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙客來／仙客来 (zh) (xiānkèlái), 仙客来 (zh) (xiānkèlái)

• Czech: brambořík (cs) m
• French: cyclamen (fr) m, artanite f
• German: Alpenveilchen (de) n, Erdscheibe (de) f, Erdbrot n, Schweinsbrot n, Saubrot n
• Greek: κυκλάμινο (el) n (kyklámino)

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

• Hebrew: רַקֶּפֶת (he) (raqéfeṯ)
• Hungarian: ciklámen (hu)
• Irish: ciclimin f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: ciclamino (it) m, artanita (it) f
• Japanese: シクラメン (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)
• Latin: cyclamen n, cyclamīnos f, f (Medieval and New Latin)
• 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
• Spanish: ciclamen m, violeta persa f, violeta de los Alpes f, ciclamino m, pamporcino m, artanita f
• Swedish: cyklamen (sv) c
• Turkish: siklamen (tr)

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈky.kla.men/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪ämɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.kla.men/, [ˈt͡ʃiːklämen]

Noun

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

1. Alternative form of cyclamīnos

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cyclamen	cyclamina
Genitive	cyclaminis	cyclaminum
Dative	cyclaminī	cyclaminibus
Accusative	cyclamen	cyclamina
Ablative	cyclamine	cyclaminibus
Vocative	cyclamen	cyclamina

References

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