pollen
English
Etymology
From Latin pollen (“fine flour”). Used by Linnaeus in the 18th century to describe the spores produced in the anthers of flowers.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pol‧len
Noun
pollen (usually uncountable, plural pollens)
- A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
- 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
- (obsolete) Fine powder in general, fine flour. (16th-century usage documented by the OED.)
- "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord [1]
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bailey to this entry?)
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Translations
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Verb
pollen (third-person singular simple present pollens, present participle pollening, simple past and past participle pollened)
- (transitive, poetic) To cover with, or as if with, pollen.
See also
Danish
Etymology
Noun
pollen n (singular definite pollenet, plural indefinite pollen)
References
- “pollen” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pollen n (uncountable)
Usage notes
The common term in Dutch is stuifmeel. The term pollen is found in biology texts, but is furthermore in common use when identifying the causative agent of hay fever. In that sense, the word is sometimes mistakenly construed as being plural (“Tranende, jeukende ogen en een loopneus: pollen zijn geen pretje”, Metro, 29 February 2016; “Er hangen al pollen in de lucht: hooikoortsseizoen is begonnen”, Het Laatste Nieuws, 10 January 2018; “Pollen kunnen nu al voor hooikoorts zorgen”, De Telegraaf, 22 December 2018).
Synonyms
Etymology 2
Verb
pollen
Inflection
Conjugation of pollen (weak) | ||||
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infinitive | pollen | |||
past singular | pollde | |||
past participle | gepolld | |||
infinitive | pollen | |||
gerund | pollen n | |||
present tense | past tense | |||
1st person singular | poll | pollde | ||
2nd person sing. (jij) | pollt | pollde | ||
2nd person sing. (u) | pollt | pollde | ||
2nd person sing. (gij) | pollt | pollde | ||
3rd person singular | pollt | pollde | ||
plural | pollen | pollden | ||
subjunctive sing.1 | polle | pollde | ||
subjunctive plur.1 | pollen | pollden | ||
imperative sing. | poll | |||
imperative plur.1 | pollt | |||
participles | pollend | gepolld | ||
1) Archaic. |
Etymology 3
Noun
pollen
- (deprecated template usage) Plural form of pol
French
Pronunciation
Noun
pollen m (plural pollens)
See also
Further reading
- “pollen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Verb
Conjugation
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”); compare with pulvis and Ancient Greek πάλη (pálē, “the finest meal”, “any fine dust”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːʲɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpol.len/, [ˈpɔlːen]
Noun
pollen n (genitive pollinis); third declension
- (literally) flour, especially fine flour, milldust
- (transferred sense) the (very) fine powder or dust of other things
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pollen | pollina |
Genitive | pollinis | pollinum |
Dative | pollinī | pollinibus |
Accusative | pollen | pollina |
Ablative | polline | pollinibus |
Vocative | pollen | pollina |
Synonyms
- (transferred sense: fine powder or dust): pulvis
Derived terms
- polenta
- pollināris (Classical)
- pollinārium (New Latin)
- pollinārius (Classical)
- pollinātus (Classical)
- pollinicus (post-Classical)
- pollinium (New Latin)
- pollinivorus (New Latin)
- pollinōdium (New Latin)
- pollinoīdēs (New Latin)
- pollinōsus (New Latin)
Descendants
References
- “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pollen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pollĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,195/1.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
pollen n (definite singular pollenet)
Related terms
References
- “pollen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
pollen n (definite singular pollenet)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
pollen m
References
- “pollen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
pollen n (uncountable)
Declension
Declension of pollen | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | pollen | pollenet | — | — |
Genitive | pollens | pollenets | — | — |
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