lotus

See also: Lotus and lótus

English

Nelumbo lutea, the American lotus

Nelumbo nucifera, the sacred lotus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloʊtəs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈləʊtəs/
• Rhymes: -əʊtəs

Noun

lotus (plural lotuses or loti)

1. A kind of aquatic plant, genus Nelumbo in the family Nelumbonaceae.
2. A water lily, genus Nymphaea, especially those of Egypt or India.
3. A legendary plant eaten by the Lotophagi of the Odyssey that caused drowsiness and euphoria.
4. A number of other plants bearing lotus in their scientific or common names (see Derived terms below).
   1. Diospyros lotus, date plum or Caucasian persimmon.
   2. Lotus, a terrestrial genus with small flowers that includes bird's-foot trefoils and deer vetches.
   3. , a shrub species with edible fruit.
5. An architectural motif of ancient Egyptian temples.

Derived terms

terms derived from lotus

• American lotus (Nelumbo lutea)
• blue lotus ()
• Egyptian lotus (Egyptian water lily)
• Indian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
• lotus birth
• lotus eater
• lotus effect

• lotus position
• lotus root
• sacred lotus ()
• snow lotus (}
• star lotus ()
• yellow lotus (Nelumbo lutea)
• white lotus ()

Translations

plant of the genus Nelumbo

• Armenian: լոտոս (hy) (lotos)
• Assamese: পদুম (podum)
• Bengali: পদ্ম (podmo)
• Burmese: ကြာ (my) (kra), ကြာပန်း (krapan:)
• Buryat: бадма (badma)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蓮花／莲花 (lin⁴ faa¹), 莲花 (lin⁴ faa¹)

  Mandarin: 蓮／莲 (zh), 莲 (zh) (lián), 蓮花／莲花 (zh) (liánhuā), 莲花 (zh) (liánhuā)

  Min Nan: 蓮花／莲花 (zh-min-nan) (liân-hue), 蓮／莲 (liân)

• Czech: lotos (cs) m
• Egyptian: (zšn)
• Estonian: lootos
• Faroese: lotusblóma f
• Finnish: lootus (fi)
• French: lotus (fr) m
• Galician: loto m
• Georgian: ლოტოსი (loṭosi)
• German: Hornklee (de) m, Lotos (de) m, Lotosblume f, Lotus (de) m
• Greek: λωτός (el) m (lotós)

  Ancient: λωτός m (lōtós)

• Hebrew: לוטוס m (lotus)
• Hindi: कमल (hi) m (kamal), पद्म (hi) m (padma)
• Hungarian: lótusz (hu)
• Icelandic: lótus m, lótusblóm (is) n
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} bunga seroja
• Irish: loiteog f
• Italian: loto (it) m
• Japanese: ロータス (rōtasu), 蓮 (ja) (はす, hasu)
• Kalmyk: бадм (badm)
• Khmer: ផ្កាឈូក (km) (phkaa chuuk)
• Korean: 연꽃 (yeonkkot)
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• Lao: ດອກບົວ (dǭk būa)
• Latin: lotus n
• Lithuanian: lotosas m
• Lü: ᦡᦸᧅᧈᦷᦢ (ḋoak¹ḃo)
• Malagasy: lota (mg)
• Malay: teratai
• Persian: نیلوفر آبی (fa) (nilufar-e âbi), لوتوس (lotus)
• Polish: lotos (pl) m
• Portuguese: lótus (pt) m, flor de lótus f
• Romanian: lotus (ro) m
• Russian: ло́тос (ru) m (lótos)
• Sanskrit: कमल (sa) m (kamala), पद्म (sa) m or n (padma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: локвањ m, ло̏тос m

  Roman: lokvanj (sh) m, lȍtos (sh) m

• Sinhalese: නෙළුම් (si) (neḷum)
• Slovene: lótos (sl) m
• Spanish: loto m
• Swahili: yungiyungi la kimisri, lotasi
• Tagalog: bayno, baino, lauas
• Tamil: தாமரை (ta) (tāmarai), கமலம் (ta) (kamalam)
• Telugu: తామరపుష్పం (te) (tāmarapuṣpaṁ)
• Thai: บัว (th) (buua), บัวหลวง (buua-lǔuang)
• Tibetan: པད་མ (pad ma)
• Turkish: nilüfer (tr)
• Urdu: کمل m (kamal)
• Vietnamese: sen (vi)
• Welsh: alaw'r dŵr m

Nymphaea — see water lily

legendary plant

• Finnish: lootus (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: λωτός m (lōtós)

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• Irish: loiteog f
• Welsh: lotws m or f

Diospyros lotus — see date plum

plant of the genus Lotus

• Finnish: maite (fi)
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Ziziphus lotus

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architectural motif

• Finnish: lootus (fi)
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Further reading

• lotus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• louts, tolus

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloː.tʏs/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: lo‧tus

Noun

lotus m (plural lotussen, diminutive lotusje n)

1. lotus, plant of the genus Nelumbo
2. used for certain plants of the genus Nymphaea

Derived terms

• blauwe lotus
• lotusbloem

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.tys/

Noun

lotus m (plural lotus)

1. lotus

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈloː.tus/, [ˈɫ̪oːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlo.tus/, [ˈlɔːt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”).

Participle

lōtus (feminine lōta, neuter lōtum); first/second-declension participle

1. washed, bathed, having been washed
2. elegant, luxurious
3. fashionable, refined

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lōtus	lōta	lōtum		lōtī	lōtae	lōta
Genitive	lōtī	lōtae	lōtī		lōtōrum	lōtārum	lōtōrum
Dative	lōtō		lōtō		lōtīs
Accusative	lōtum	lōtam	lōtum		lōtōs	lōtās	lōta
Ablative	lōtō	lōtā	lōtō		lōtīs
Vocative	lōte	lōta	lōtum		lōtī	lōtae	lōta

Alternative forms

• lautus

Etymology 2

Noun

lōtus m (genitive lōtūs); fourth declension

1. a washing, bathing

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lōtus	lōtūs
Genitive	lōtūs	lōtuum
Dative	lōtuī	lōtibus
Accusative	lōtum	lōtūs
Ablative	lōtū	lōtibus
Vocative	lōtus	lōtūs

Etymology 3

lōtus (Egyptian water lily)

Variant form of lōtos, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós).

Alternative forms

• lōtos

Noun

lōtus m (genitive lōtī); second declension

1. The Egyptian water lily,
2. The date plum, Diospyros lotus
3. The mythical lotus tree, possibly

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	lōtus	lōtī
Genitive	lōtī	lōtōrum
Dative	lōtō	lōtīs
Accusative	lōtum	lōtōs
Ablative	lōtō	lōtīs
Vocative	lōte	lōtī

Derived terms

• lōtaster

Descendants

• Translingual: Lotus

References

• “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lotus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lotus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lotus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlo.tus/

Noun

lotus m (plural lotuși)

1. lotus

Declension

Declension of lotus

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) lotus	lotusul	(niște) lotuși	lotușii
genitive/dative	(unui) lotus	lotusului	(unor) lotuși	lotușilor
vocative	lotusule		lotușilor