different between brassica vs colewort

English

Etymology

From Latin brassica

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?b?æs.?.k?/

Noun

brassica (plural brassicas)

1. Any of many plants of the genus Brassica, including cabbage, mustard and rapes

Synonyms

• (plant of genus Brassica): crucifer

Translations

See also

• Brassica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Brassica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Brassica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

Unknown origin. Suggested derivations include

• From Proto-Celtic *bresic, *bresych (“cabbage”) (though this could have been a reverse borrowing); compare Welsh bresych
• Contraction of praesecare (“to cut off early”), from prae- + secare, referring to its harvesting during the autumn for early winter food
• From a Latin word meaning "to cut off the head," attested in a Plautus comedy.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bras.si.ka/, [?b?äs???kä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bras.si.ka/, [?b??s?ik?]

Noun

brassica f (genitive brassicae); first declension

1. especially cabbage, but including cauliflower and other varieties of Brassica oleracea

   Synonym: caulis

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: brassica
• ? Translingual: Brassica
• ? Old Irish: praisech
  • Irish: praiseach
• ? Welsh: bresych

References

• brassica in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• brassica in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• brassica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Dixon, Geoffrey (2007): Vegetable Brassicas and Related Crucifers
• Henslow (1908)
• Hegi (1919)
• Gates (1953)

English

Etymology

From Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole +? wort.

Noun

colewort (usually uncountable, plural coleworts)

1. A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].

Synonyms

• (headless Brassica): cole

Related terms

• coleslaw

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