ranunculus

From Latin rānunculus.

ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)

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

• (genus Ranunculus): buttercup, crowfoot

• ranunculaceous

From Latin rānunculus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑnuŋkulus/, [ˈrɑ̝nuŋˌkulus̠]

ranunculus (rare)

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

• leinikki

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /raːˈnun.ku.lus/, [räːˈnʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /raˈnun.ku.lus/, [räˈnuŋkulus]

rānunculus m (genitive rānunculī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• rāna
• rānula

• “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.