endive

English

An endive plant.

Alternative forms

• endyve (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French endive, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, from Late Latin intibus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndaɪv/, /ɒnˈdiːv/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndaɪv/, /ˈɛndɪv/, /ˈɒndiːv/

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• Rhymes: (US) -iːv

Noun

endive (countable and uncountable, plural endives)

1. A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
   • 1787, Charlotte Mason, The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table‎^[2], page 192:

     When all this is ready, take some endive and Dutch lettuce, some chervil and celery, wash and drain them very well, cut them small, put them into a saucepan, and pour some of the broth upon them […]

   • 1805, William Augustus Henderson, The Housekeeper's Instructor, Or, Universal Family Cook‎^[3], page 110:

     Take the three heads of endive out of the water, drain them, and leave the largest whole.

   • 1915 August 28, Marion Harris Neil, “When Lettus is Scarce”, in The Country Gentleman‎^[4], volume 80, page 1379:

     Broad leaved, green curled or white curled, the endive plants are good; the green sorts, on account of their coolness and their plentiful salts, are esteemed for the salad bowl, and the white-curled sorts are liked for soups, stews and as boiled vegetables.

   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables‎^[5], page 146:

     Endive and escarole are the same vegetable, but endive has leaves that are cut and curled, while escarole has smooth, broad leaves.

Hyponyms

• (Cichorium endivia): curly endive, escarole, frisée lettuce, frisée; broad-leaved endive

Derived terms

• Belgian endive (from Cichorium intybus)

Translations

leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia

• Afrikaans: sigorei, andyvie
• Arabic: هِنْدِبَاء‎ f (hindibāʔ)

  Moroccan Arabic: شكورية‎ (šikūrya)

• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܗܢܕܒܐ‎ m (hendəḇā)

• Armenian: եղերդ աղցան (ełerd ałcʿan), եղերդակ աղցան (ełerdak ałcʿan), հինդք (hy) (hindkʿ)
• Bulgarian: градинска жлъчка f (gradinska žlǎčka)
• Catalan: endívia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 苦苣 (zh) (kǔjù)

• Dutch: andijvie (nl) m or f
• Finnish: endiivi (fi)
• French: laitue romaine (fr) f
• German: Endivie f
• Greek: αντίδι (el) n (antídi)

  Ancient: ἔντυβον n (éntubon), σέρις f (séris)

• Hungarian: endívia (hu)
• Italian: indivia (it) f, scarola
• Latin: intibum n
• Luxembourgish: Andéif f
• Macedonian: ендивија f (endivija)
• Maltese: indivja f
• Navajo: tʼąąʼdoolghasí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: endiv m

  Nynorsk: endiv m

• Persian: هندبا‎ (hendebâ), آندیو‎ (fa) (ândiv)
• Plautdietsch: Zechuaje m
• Polish: endywia (pl)
• Portuguese: endívia (pt) f, escarola (pt) f
• Romanian: andivă (ro) f
• Russian: эндивий m (endivij)
• Serbo-Croatian: endivija f
• Spanish: escarola (es) f, endivia f
• Swedish: endiv c, sydcikoria c
• Turkish: hindiba (tr)

See also

• escarole

Further reading

• endive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Devine, devein, envied, veined

French

Une endive blanche.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French endive, endivie, andive, indivie, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, suspected via Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion) from Latin intibus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.div/

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Noun

endive f (plural endives)

1. (cooking) Belgian endive (edible chicory bud of Cichorium intybus)

   Synonym: chicon

   Une salade d'endive.

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Usage notes

In a strict botanical sense, French endive or English Belgian endive is actually not an endive (of the species Cichorium endivia) but a common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

Descendants

• → Iranian Persian: آندیو‎ (ândiv)

See also

• chicorée

Further reading

• endive on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “endive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.