nasturtium

See also: Nasturtium

English

a nasturtium flower, Tropaeolum majus

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• nasturtian, nasturtion (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nasˈtɜːʃəm/, /nəsˈtɜːʃəm/
• (General American) 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 plant in this genus, Tropaeolum majus.
3. A genus, Nasturtium, that includes watercress.

Synonyms

• (Tropaeolum majus): monks cress, Indian cress

Translations

plant of the genus Tropaeolum

• Armenian: հնդկոտեմ (hy) (hndkotem)
• Basque: kaputxina
• Catalan: caputxina f
• Finnish: koristekrassi
• French: capucine f
• German: Kapuzinerkresse (de) f

• Italian: nasturzio (it) m
• Spanish: capuchina f
• Swedish: krasse (sv) c

Tropaeolum majus — see Indian cress

plant of the genus Nasturtium

• Finnish: vesikrassi
• Spanish: capuchina f

• Swedish: källfräne n

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: řeřicha (cs)
• Italian: nasturzio (it) m, cappuccina m, tropeolo m
• Maori: natahama

• Norman: capuchinne f
• Romanian: călțunaș (ro) m
• Spanish: berro (es), nasturcio

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 or nāsturtī); second declension

1. cress

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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