nasturtium

See also: Nasturtium

English

a nasturtium flower, Tropaeolum majus

Wikispecies

Etymology

Middle English nasturtium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /næsˈtɜːʃəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /næsˈtɝʃəm/, /nəsˈtɝʃəm/

Noun

nasturtium (plural nasturtiums or nasturtia)

1. The popular name of the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
   • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 281

     Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.

2. A genus, Nasturtium, that includes watercress.

Synonyms

• (species of the genus Tropaeolum): monks cress, Indian cress

Translations

a plant used in salads

• Armenian: հնդկոտեմ (hy) (hndkotem)
• Basque: kaputxina
• Finnish: nenätti (fi)
• German: Kapuzinerkresse (de) f

• Maori: natahama
• Spanish: berro (es), nasturcio
• Swedish: krasse (sv) c

genus

• Catalan: caputxina f
• Czech: řeřicha (cs)
• Finnish: nenätti (fi)
• French: grande capucine f

• Italian: nasturzio (it) m, cappuccina m, tropeolo m
• Norman: capuchinne f
• Romanian: călțunaș (ro) m
• Spanish: capuchina (es) f

References

• “nasturtium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2003.

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Latin

Etymology

From nāris (“nose”) + torquere (“to twist”)

Noun

nāsturtium n (genitive nāsturtiī); second declension

1. cress

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia
Genitive	nāsturtiī nāsturtī1	nāsturtiōrum
Dative	nāsturtiō	nāsturtiīs
Accusative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia
Ablative	nāsturtiō	nāsturtiīs
Vocative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• nasturtium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press