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Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Ranunculus, from Latin rānunculus.

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Noun

ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)

  1. Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin rānunculus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑnuŋkulus/, [ˈrɑ̝nuŋˌkulus̠]
  • Rhymes: -ulus

Noun

ranunculus (rare)

  1. (botany) ranunculus (plant of the genus Ranunculus)

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Latin

Etymology

From rāna (frog) + -unculus (diminutive suffix). An irregularly formed diminutive in several ways: the ending -unculus was rarely used as a suffix, more often appearing when the diminutive suffix -culus is added to a stem ending in /n/, and the gender of a Latin diminutive usually is the same as that of the base word, but in this case changes from feminine to masculine. See also rānula, another diminutive from rāna.

Compare typologically Ancient Greek βατράχιον (batrákhion) (diminutive of βάτραχος (bátrakhos)).

Pronunciation

Noun

rānunculus m (genitive rānunculī); second declension

  1. a little frog, polliwog, tadpole
  2. buttercup, crowfoot (Ranunculus)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: rannuvolo, ranonchio, ranonchia
    • Sicilian: ranunchiu, larunchiu

Borrowings:

References

  • ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ranunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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