cyclamen
See also: Cyclamen
English
Etymology
Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.
Noun
cyclamen (plural cyclamens)
- Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
- Synonym: sowbread
- 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:
- An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
- 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:
- An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]
Translations
A type of plant
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsi.klaː.mɛn/
Usage notes
- This form is mostly used in technical contexts, cyclaam being the more standard choice.
Derived terms
- cyclaam (back-formation)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
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French
Further reading
- “cyclamen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈky.kla.men/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪ämɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.kla.men/, [ˈt͡ʃiːklämen]
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: циклама (ciklama)
- → Catalan: ciclamen
- → English: cyclamen
- → French: cyclamen
- → German: Zyklamen
- → Hungarian: ciklámen
- → Polish: cycklamen
- → Portuguese: ciclame
- → Russian: цикламен (ciklamen)
- → Serbo-Croatian: ciklama / циклама
- → Spanish: ciclamen
- → Swedish: cyklamen
- → Translingual: Cyclamen
- → Turkish: siklamen
References
- cyclămĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.
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