Translingual

Proper noun

Cicuta f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – four similar species of highly toxic plants, the water hemlocks, easily confused with edible plants.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Apiales - order; Apiaceae - family; Apioideae - subfamily; Oenantheae - tribe

English

Noun

cicuta ‎(uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.ii:

     cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cicūta.

Noun

cicuta f ‎(plural cicute)

1. hemlock

Anagrams

• cucita

Latin

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid ‎(“hemlock”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuː.ta]

Noun

cicūta f ‎(genitive cicūtae); first declension

1. A plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa.
2. The juice of the hemlock given to prisoners as poison
3. A pipe or flute made from the stalks or stems of the hemlock.

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• cicūticen

Descendants

References

• cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cicuta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Siegfried, Miscellanea Celtica, p. 32

Portuguese

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant of genus Conium)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin cicuta ‎(“hemlock; pipe”).

Noun

cicuta f ‎(plural cicutas)

1. hemlock