Translingual

Convolvulus mauritanicus

Proper noun

Convolvulus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Convolvulaceae – the true bindweeds or convolvuluses.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Convolvulaceae - family; Convolvuloideae - subfamily; Convolvuleae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Convolvulus arvensis - type species; for other species see Convolvulus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Convolvulus arvensis

Wikispecies

Noun

convolvulus ‎(plural convolvuluses or convolvuli)

1. (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
   • 1994, Edmund Swinglehurst, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library, Parragon Book Service Limited, ISBN 1858136113, “Stages of Cruelty · 1856–90 · Ford Madox Brown”, page 38/2:

     In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.

2. (zoology) A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51,

     Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.

Synonyms

• bindweed
• morning glory

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• convolvolus

Etymology

convolvō +‎ -ulus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /konˈwol.wu.lus/, [kɔnˈwɔɫ.wʊ.ɫʊs]

Noun

convolvulus m ‎(genitive convolvulī); second declension

1. the caterpillar of the vine moth (Eupoecilia ambiguella), which wraps itself up in the leaves of the vine
2. larger bindweed, hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed (Calystegia sepium)
3. (Medieval Latin) colic (severe pains that grip the abdomen or the disease that causes such pains)

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (colic): cōlica, dolor alvī ‎(literally “pain of the bowels”)

Descendants

• Translingual: Convolvulus (generic name)
• English: convolvulus
• Italian: convolvolo
• Portuguese: convólvulo

References

• convolvŭlus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• CONVOLVULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “convolvŭlus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 427/2.
• “conuoluolus” on page 441/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)