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Webster 1913 Edition
Anemone
A-nem′o-ne
,Noun.
[L.
anemone
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] wind.] 1.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the
Ranunculus
or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens. 2.
(Zool.)
The sea anemone. See
Actinia
, and Sea anemone
. ☞ This word is sometimes pronounced
ănˊē-mō′nē̍
, especially by classical scholars. Webster 1828 Edition
Anemone
ANEM'ONE
,Definition 2024
Anemone
Anemone
Translingual
Proper noun
Anemone f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – the anemones.
References
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English
Noun
anemone (plural anemones)
- Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- A sea anemone.
Derived terms
Translations
any plant of genus anemone
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sea anemone — see sea anemone
References
- ↑ "anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
- ↑ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
- ↑ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
- ↑ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).
Latin
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
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
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