different between aconitum vs aconite

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin acon?tum (“wolfsbane, monkshood”). See aconite.

Noun

aconitum (plural aconitums)

1. The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.
   • c 1598 Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, IV, iv

     Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder.

2. Aconitum, a genus of plants in the family Ranunculaceae.

Anagrams

• acontium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (akóniton, “wolf's bane”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ko?ni?.tum/, [äk??ni?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ko?ni.tum/, [?k??ni?t?um]

Noun

acon?tum n (genitive acon?t?); second declension

1. Any of the poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum; wolfsbane, monkshood, aconite.
2. A poison made from the poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• aconitum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aconitum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aconitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From French aconit, from Latin acon?tum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (akóniton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.k?.na?t/

Noun

aconite (countable and uncountable, plural aconites)

1. The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; any plant of the genus Aconitum, all the species of which are poisonous.
2. (toxicology) An extract or tincture obtained from Aconitum napellus, used as a poison and medicinally.

Synonyms

• (herb): wolfsbane, monkshood

Descendants

• ? Irish: acainít

Translations

Anagrams

• Atencio, ace into, acetoin, acinote, anoetic, antoeci, antœci

Latin

Adjective

acon?te

1. vocative masculine singular of acon?tus