orchis
See also: Orchis
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).
Noun
orchis (plural orchises or orchides or (archaic) orchisses)
- An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis. [from 16th c.]
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Miss Waverly.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 195:
- [T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]
- 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:
- In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:
- He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.
- (anatomy) A testis.
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “orchis” in Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary. (2012).
Dutch
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis).
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- bosorchis
- moerasorchis
- purperorchis
- rietorchis
- schroeforchis
Further reading
- orchis on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
French
Etymology
Calque of translingual Orchis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔʁ.kis/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
- orchis à deux feuilles
- orchis bouc
- orchis de Provence
- orchis mâle
- orchis militaire
- orchis moustique
- orchis pyramidal
- orchis singe
- orchis vanille
References
- “orchis” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “orchis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kʰis/, [ˈɔrkʰɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈor.kis/, [ˈɔrkis]
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | orchis | orchēs |
Genitive | orchis | orchium |
Dative | orchī | orchibus |
Accusative | orchem | orchēs orchīs |
Ablative | orche | orchibus |
Vocative | orchis | orchēs |
Descendants
- → English: orchis
- → Translingual: Orchis
- ⇒ New Latin: Orchideae, Orchidaceae
- → Albanian: orkide
- → Catalan: orquídia
- → Czech: orchidea, orchidej
- → English: orchid
- → Finnish: orkidea
- → French: orchidée
- → Galician: orquídea
- → Greek: ορχιδέα (orchidéa)
- → Hungarian: orchidea
- → Italian: orchidea
- → Lithuanian: orchidėja
- → Macedonian: орхидеја (orhideja)
- → Polish: orchidea
- → Portuguese: orquídea
- → Russian: орхиде́я (orxidéja)
- → Serbo-Croatian: орхидеја (orhideja)
- → Slovene: orhideja
- → Spanish: orquídea
References
- orchis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “orchis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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