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ranunculus
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See also: Ranunculus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Ranunculus, from Latin rānunculus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)
- Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
buttercup — see buttercup
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Finnish
Etymology
From Latin rānunculus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranunculus (rare)
- (botany) ranunculus (plant of the genus Ranunculus)
Declension
Synonyms
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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
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [raːˈnʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [raˈnuŋ.ku.lus]
Noun
rānunculus m (genitive rānunculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: rannuvolo, ranonchio, ranonchia
- Sicilian: ranunchiu, larunchiu
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: ranuncle (learned)
- → Dutch: ranonkel (learned)
- → English: ranunculus (learned)
- → French: renoncule (learned)
- → Galician: ranúnculo (learned)
- → Italian: ranuncolo, rannuncolo (learned)
- → Portuguese: ranúnculo (learned)
- → Spanish: ranúnculo (learned)
- → Translingual: Ranunculus (learned)
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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