Translingual

Anemone ranunculoides

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Anemone f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – the anemones.

References

1. ↑ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
2. ↑ Stearn T. William, Botanical Latin, Redwood Burn, third edition 1983

English

Anemone hortensis

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

• anemonefish
• sea anemone

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

Related terms

• anemone di mare

See also

• attinia

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/

Noun

anemōnē f ‎(genitive anemōnēs); first declension

1. windflower, anemone

Inflection

First declension, Greek type.

Descendants

References

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