tansy

See also: Tansy

English

Etymology

From Old French tanesie, tanoisie et al., aphetic form of athanasie, from Medieval Latin athanasia, from Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”). Alternatively, from a Vulgar Latin tanacita, possibly from *tanacetum, composed of thannus and acetum (see Rey 2013, Dictionnaire de la langue française, page 2386).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtanzi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtæn.zi/

Noun

tansy (countable and uncountable, plural tansies)

1. A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially .
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 365:

     The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Pepys to this entry?)

Derived terms

• double tansy
• tansy mustard

Translations

plant of the genus Tanacetum

• Czech: vratič (cs) m
• Finnish: pietaryrtti (fi)
• French: tanaisie (fr) f, barbotine (fr) f
• German: Rainfarn m
• Irish: franclus m, lus na bhfrancach m
• Italian: tanaceto m
• Kashubian: pòkrãtnik m
• Macedonian: вратика f (vratika)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norman: t'naisie f
• Polish: wrotycz (pl) m
• Portuguese: tanaceto (pt) m, atanásia f, tanásia f
• Romanian: vetrice (ro) f
• Russian: пи́жма (ru) f (pížma)
• Vietnamese: cây cúc ngài
• Welsh: tansi m
• Westrobothnian: ,

See also

• pennyroyal
• savin

Anagrams

• -nasty, Santy, Yants, antsy, nasty