orchis

See also: Orchis

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.kɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/

Noun

orchis (plural orchises)

1. Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid. [16th C.]
   • 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:

     In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

Related terms

• orchid

Translations

orchis

• Lithuanian: gegužraibė f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Volapük: rogid

Anagrams

• Orcish, Schiro, chiros, choirs, ichors, orcish

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kʰis/, [ˈɔrkʰɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kis/, [ˈɔrkis]

Noun

orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension

1. orchid (flower)
2. kind of olive

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	orchis	orchēs
Genitive	orchis	orchium
Dative	orchī	orchibus
Accusative	orchem	orchēs orchīs
Ablative	orche	orchibus
Vocative	orchis	orchēs

Descendants

• → English: orchis
• → Translingual: Orchis
• ⇒ New Latin: Orchideae, Orchidaceae
  • → Albanian: orkide
  • → Catalan: orquídia
  • → Czech: orchidea, orchidej
  • → English: orchid
  • → Finnish: orkidea
  • → French: orchidée
    • → German: Orchidee
      • → Dutch: orchidee
      • → Estonian: orhidee
    • → Malagasy: orkide
    • → Norwegian: orkidé
    • → Romanian: orhidee
    • → Swedish: orkidé
    • → Turkish: orkide
  • → Galician: orquídea
  • → Greek: ορχιδέα (orchidéa)
  • → Hungarian: orchidea
  • → Italian: orchidea
  • → Lithuanian: orchidėja
  • → Macedonian: орхидеја (orhideja)
  • → Polish: orchidea
  • → Portuguese: orquídea
  • → Russian: орхиде́я (orxidéja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: орхидеја (orhideja)
  • → Slovene: orhideja
  • → Spanish: orquídea

References

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