different between anemone vs abalone

English

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?, from Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?), from ?????? (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -??? (-?n?, “daughter of the wind”).

Or from Phoenician *????????????????? (*n?mn), akin to Arabic ???????? ????????????? (šaq??iq an-nu?m?n, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) ??????? ??????????? (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??n?m.?.ni/
• Rhymes: -?m?ni

Often metathesized as IPA^(key): /??n?n.?.mi/

Noun

anemone (plural anemones)

1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
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2. A sea anemone.

Derived terms

• anemonefish
• sea anemone

Translations

References

Italian

Etymology

From Latin anem?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?n?.mo.ne/

Noun

anemone m (plural anemoni)

1. anemone

Derived terms

• anemone di mare

See also

• attinia

Further reading

• anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (anem?n?). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ne?mo?.ne?/, [än??mo?ne?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.ne?mo.ne/, [?n??m??n?]

Noun

anem?n? f (genitive anem?n?s); first declension

1. windflower, anemone

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Descendants

References

• anemone in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• anemone in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ane?mone/, [a.ne?mo.ne]

Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)

1. Alternative form of anémona

Further reading

• “anemone” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• avalone (obsolete)

Etymology

From American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen/Southern Ohlone a?lun (“red abalone”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æb.??l??.ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /æb.??lo?.ni/

Noun

abalone (usually uncountable, plural abalones)

1. (Canada, US, Australia) An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl. [from mid-19th century]
2. (Canada, US, Australia) The meat of the aforementioned mollusc. [from mid-19th century]

Synonyms

• (UK) ear-shell, (Guernsey) ormer, (New Zealand) paua, pawa, (South Africa) perlemoen

Translations

See also

• paua

References

• Abalone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• abalone at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

From English abalone, borrowed in the mid-20th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ba.l?n/

Noun

abalone m (plural abalones)

1. (cooking, uncommon) The abalone.

Synonyms

• (more usual terms for "abalone"): ormeau, haliotis, haliotide, oreille de mer

Further reading

• “abalone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Malay

Alternative forms

• ????????

Etymology

From English abalone, from American Spanish abulón, from an indigenous language of the Monterey Bay area such as Rumsen (Southern Ohlone a?lun (“red abalone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [abalone]
• Rhymes: -ne, -e

Noun

abalone (Jawi spelling ???????, plural abalone-abalone)

1. abalone (edible univalve mollusc)