anemone
English
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#ANEMONECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂enh₁-#ANEMONEFrom LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ANEMONE anemōnē, from Ancient GreekCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#ANEMONE ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”).[1]
Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “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/Category:English 4-syllable words#ANEMONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANEMONE
- IPA(key): /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/, /əˈmɛn.ə.mi/ (proscribed but common)Category:English 4-syllable words#ANEMONECategory:English 4-syllable words#ANEMONECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#ANEMONE
- Hyphenation: a‧nem‧o‧ne
Noun
anemone (plural anemones)Category:English lemmas#ANEMONECategory:English nouns#ANEMONECategory:English countable nouns#ANEMONECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ANEMONECategory:Pages with entries#ANEMONECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANEMONE
- Category:en:Anemoneae tribe plants#ANEMONECategory:en:Flowers#ANEMONE Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
- 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 23:
- Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.Category:English terms with quotations#ANEMONE
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all […]Category:English terms with quotations#ANEMONE
- 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 115:
- Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.Category:English terms with quotations#ANEMONE
- 2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 August 2025:
- The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.Category:English terms with quotations#ANEMONE
- Category:en:Sea anemones#ANEMONEA sea anemone.
Derived terms
- alpine anemone
- ANDRILL anemone
- anemonefish
- anemone fish
- anemonin
- anemonol
- buttercup anemone
- Chinese anemone
- clown anemone
- false plum anemone
- hell's fire anemone
- Japanese anemone
- jewel anemone
- narcissus-flowered anemone
- rue anemone
- sea anemone
- sun anemone shrimp
- tree anemone
- wood anemone
- yellow anemone
- yellow wood anemone
- yellow woodland anemone
Translations
See also
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).
- ↑ Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “anemone”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36; reprinted 1994.
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:Catalan terms borrowed from Latin#ANEMONECategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#ANEMONE anemōnē, from Ancient GreekCategory:Catalan terms derived from Ancient Greek#ANEMONE ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).
Pronunciation
Noun
anemone f (plural anemones)Category:Catalan lemmas#ANEMONECategory:Catalan nouns#ANEMONECategory:Catalan countable nouns#ANEMONECategory:Catalan feminine nouns with no feminine ending#ANEMONECategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#ANEMONECategory:Catalan feminine nouns#ANEMONECategory:Pages with entries#ANEMONECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANEMONE
- (botanyCategory:ca:Botany#ANEMONE) anemone
- (zoologyCategory:ca:Zoology#ANEMONE) sea anemone
- Synonym: anemone de mar
Derived terms
Further reading
- “anemone”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
Italian
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#ANEMONE anemōnē.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈnɛ.mo.ne/Category:Italian 4-syllable words#ANEMONECategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#ANEMONE
- Rhymes: -ɛmoneCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛmone#ANEMONECategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛmone/4 syllables#ANEMONE
- Hyphenation: a‧nè‧mo‧ne
Noun
anemone m (plural anemoni)Category:Italian lemmas#ANEMONECategory:Italian nouns#ANEMONECategory:Italian countable nouns#ANEMONECategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#ANEMONECategory:Italian masculine nouns#ANEMONECategory:Pages with entries#ANEMONECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANEMONE
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient GreekCategory:Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#ANEMONECategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#ANEMONE ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.
Pronunciation
Noun
anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs)Category:Latin lemmas#ANEMONECategory:Latin nouns#ANEMONECategory:Latin first declension nouns#ANEMONECategory:Latin feminine nouns in the first declension#ANEMONECategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ANEMONECategory:Latin feminine nouns#ANEMONECategory:Pages with entries#ANEMONECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANEMONE; first declension
Declension
First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).
Descendants
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
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aneˈmone/ [a.neˈmo.ne]Category:Spanish 4-syllable words#ANEMONECategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#ANEMONE
- Rhymes: -oneCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/one#ANEMONECategory:Rhymes:Spanish/one/4 syllables#ANEMONE
- Syllabification: a‧ne‧mo‧ne
Noun
anemone f (plural anemones)Category:Spanish lemmas#ANEMONECategory:Spanish nouns#ANEMONECategory:Spanish countable nouns#ANEMONECategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#ANEMONECategory:Spanish feminine nouns#ANEMONECategory:Pages with entries#ANEMONECategory:Pages with 5 entries#ANEMONE
- alternative form of anémona
Further reading
- “anemone”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025