different between anemone vs pulsatilla

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.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all (...)

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

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

pulsatilla (plural pulsatillas)

1. Any of several plants, of the former genus Pulsatilla, now often considered a subgenus of Anemone, including the pasque flower, some of which are used as medicinal herbs