endive
English
Alternative forms
- endyve (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French endive, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, from Late Latin intibus.
Pronunciation
Noun
endive (countable and uncountable, plural endives)
- A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
- 1915 August 28, Marion Harris Neil, “When Lettus is Scarce”, in The Country Gentleman, volume 80, page 1379:
- Broad leaved, green curled or white curled, the endive plants are good; the green sorts, on account of their coolness and their plentiful salts, are esteemed for the salad bowl, and the white-curled sorts are liked for soups, stews and as boiled vegetables.
Hyponyms
- (Cichorium endivia): curly endive, escarole, frisée lettuce, frisée; broad-leaved endive
Derived terms
- Belgian endive (from Cichorium intybus)
Translations
leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia
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See also
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French endive, endivie, andive, indivie, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, suspected via Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion) from Latin intibus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɑ̃.div/
Audio (file)
Noun
endive f (plural endives)
- (cooking) Belgian endive (edible chicory bud of Cichorium intybus)
- Synonym: chicon
- Une salade d’endive.
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Usage notes
In a strict botanical sense, French endive or English Belgian endive is actually not an endive (of the species Cichorium endivia) but a common chicory (Cichorium intybus).[1]
Descendants
- → Iranian Persian: آنْدیوْ (ândiv)
See also
References
- Régis Thomas (2017 April 24 (last accessed)) “Chicorée et endive”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
Further reading
- endive on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “endive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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