anemone

See also: Anemone, anémone, and anêmone

English

Anemone hortensis

Etymology

From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + feminine patronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of the wind”).[1]

Or from Phoenician [script needed] (*naxmon), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان‎ (šaqāʾiq an-nuʿmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים‎ (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).[2][3][4]

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈnɛm.ə.ni/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛməni

Almost invariably mispronounced as IPA(key): /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

  1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
  2. A sea anemone.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  1. ↑ "anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
  2. ↑ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
  3. ↑ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
  4. ↑ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Italian

Noun

anemone m (plural anemoni)

  1. anemone
  • anemone di mare

See also

Latin

anemōnae (windflowers)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /a.neˈmoː.neː/, [a.nɛˈmoː.neː]

Noun

anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); first declension

  1. windflower, anemone

Inflection

First declension, Greek type.

Case Singular Plural
nominative anemōnē anemōnae
genitive anemōnēs anemōnārum
dative anemōnae anemōnīs
accusative anemōnēn anemōnās
ablative anemōnē anemōnīs
vocative anemōnē anemōnae

Descendants

  • Italian: anemone
  • Norman: anémône

References

  • anemone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • anemone in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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