ricinus

See also: Ricinus

English

Noun

ricinus (countable and uncountable, plural ricinuses)

1. Ricinus communis, the castor oil plant.

   Synonym: castor oil plant

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ricinus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

ricinus m (plural ricinussen, diminutive ricinusje n)

1. synonym of wonderboom (“castor oil plant”)

Derived terms

• ricinusboom
• ricinusolie
• ricinuszaad

Related terms

• ricine

Hungarian

Etymology

From Latin ricinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈrit͡sinuʃ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧ci‧nus

Noun

ricinus (plural ricinusok)

1. castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ricinus	ricinusok
accusative	ricinust	ricinusokat
dative	ricinusnak	ricinusoknak
instrumental	ricinussal	ricinusokkal
causal-final	ricinusért	ricinusokért
translative	ricinussá	ricinusokká
terminative	ricinusig	ricinusokig
essive-formal	ricinusként	ricinusokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	ricinusban	ricinusokban
superessive	ricinuson	ricinusokon
adessive	ricinusnál	ricinusoknál
illative	ricinusba	ricinusokba
sublative	ricinusra	ricinusokra
allative	ricinushoz	ricinusokhoz
elative	ricinusból	ricinusokból
delative	ricinusról	ricinusokról
ablative	ricinustól	ricinusoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	ricinusé	ricinusoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	ricinuséi	ricinusokéi

Possessive forms of ricinus

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	ricinusom	ricinusaim
2nd person sing.	ricinusod	ricinusaid
3rd person sing.	ricinusa	ricinusai
1st person plural	ricinusunk	ricinusaink
2nd person plural	ricinusotok	ricinusaitok
3rd person plural	ricinusuk	ricinusaik

Derived terms

• ricinusos

Compound words

• ricinusmag
• ricinusnövény
• ricinusolaj

Further reading

• ricinus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Latin

Etymology

Unknown; possibly a substrate word. Compare Albanian ergjëz (“nit”), Lithuanian érkė (“tick”), Latvian ērce (“tick”), Proto-Slavic *ràkъ (“crayfish”), Sanskrit रिक्षा (rikṣā, “nit”) and Persian رشک (rešk, “nit”), which cannot all be derived regularly from the same Proto-Indo-European source. A pre-form *HreK-(e)r ~ *Hrek-en- is possible for the Latin assuming post-PIE thematicization, but the root would remain unidentified.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪ.kɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.t͡ʃi.nus]

Noun

ricinus m (genitive ricinī); second declension

1. tick (arachnid)
2. castor oil plant, Ricinus (and its seeds)
3. mulberry seeds

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ricinus	ricinī
genitive	ricinī	ricinōrum
dative	ricinō	ricinīs
accusative	ricinum	ricinōs
ablative	ricinō	ricinīs
vocative	ricine	ricinī

Descendants

• (castor):
  • Italian: ricino
  • → Translingual: Ricinus
  • → Catalan: ricí
  • → English: ricin
  • → French: ricin
  • → German: Rizinus
  • → Italian: ricina
  • → Romanian: ricin
  • → Spanish: ricino
• (tick):
  • → Albanian: rriqër
  • Asturian: rendu, rédinu
  • Catalan: rènec
  • Dalmatian: drecno
  • Gallurese: rìcini, irrìcina
  • Sardinian:
    • Logudorese: erighìna, bereghìna, rìghine
    • Campidanese: rìžini, arrìži
    • Nuorese: errichìna, orichìna, iritzìna
  • Spanish: rezno

References

• “ricinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ricinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.