different between canna vs plantain

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæn?/
• Rhymes: -æn?

Etymology 1

From Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?), Classical Syriac ????? (qanya), and English cane, canon, cannon, canal, and channel.

Wikispecies

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
   • 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate 2011, p. 7:

     A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots cannae.

Contraction

canna

1. (Scotland, Jamaican) Contraction of can not; cannot.

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian canna. Doublet of cane.

Noun

canna (plural cannas)

1. (historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: cannas, cannât

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular past historic of canner

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cann, canna (“can, vessel”), borrowed from Old English canne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan???/

Noun

canna m (genitive singular canna, nominative plural cannaí)

1. can

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "canna" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “canna” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “canna” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan.na/
• Rhymes: -anna
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canne)

1. cane
2. barrel (of a gun)

3. (fishing) rod

4. tube, pipe (on a pump organ or a trachea)

5. chute
6. (slang) joint

   Synonym: spinello

7. (historical) traditional unit of measure

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? English: canna

Related terms

Verb

canna

1. third-person singular present indicative of cannare
2. second-person singular imperative of cannare

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• cyaan

Etymology

From English cannot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kan?/
• Hyphenation: ca?nna

Verb

canna

1. (rare) Alternative form of cyaan.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”). Compare Biblical Hebrew ?????? (qané), Aramaic ???????? (qany?) or ??????? (qany?) and Classical Syriac ??????? (qanyo).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?kän?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kan.na/, [?k?n??]

Noun

canna f (genitive cannae); first declension

1. A reed, cane.

   Synonyms: calamus, harund?

2. (by extension) Anything made of reed or cane; reed-pipe, flute; gondola; windpipe.

   Synonyms: harund?, t?bia

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• canna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• canna in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• canna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• canna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• canna in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung

Portuguese

Noun

canna f (plural cannas)

1. Obsolete spelling of cana

Scots

Etymology

can +? -na

Verb

canna

1. Orkney form of cannae (“cannot”)

Sicilian

Etymology

From Latin canna, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kánn?, “reed”), from Akkadian ???????????????? (qanûm, “reed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?n.n??/, [?kä?n?.n???]
• Hyphenation: càn?na

Noun

canna f (plural canni)

1. reed, stick, rattan; a cane, rod, instrument, or other item made out of such material
2. barrel (as of a gun or cannon)
3. tube, pipe (as on a pump organ or a trachea)

Derived terms

• cannolu, cannoli
• cannuolu, cannuoli

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?plant(e)?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?plænt?n/, IPA^(key): /?plæn.te?n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plant?ginem (“plantain”), accusative of plant?g?, from planta (“sole”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat; to spread”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.

Noun

plantain (plural plantains)

1. A plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 225:

     The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.

   • 2003, Michael Hofmann, translating Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, Penguin 2004, p. 41:

     The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.

Synonyms

• waybread
• fleawort

Derived terms

• common plantain
• greater plantain
• mud plantain
• ribwort plantain
• robin's plantain
• water plantain

Translations

References

• Plantago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plantago on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Plantago on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

From Spanish plantano, obsolete variant of plátano, from Galibi Carib platana (“banana”).

Noun

plantain (plural plantains)

1. A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
2. The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:plantain.

Related terms

• banana plantain
• bocadillo plantain
• cooking plantain
• plantain cutter
• plantain eater (Musophagidae)
• plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus)
• plantain tree

Translations

References

• plantain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Musa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Musa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• banana

Anagrams

• plainant

Basque

Etymology

Eventually from Latin plantaginem, accusative of plantago.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /plan.ta?/

Noun

plantain inan

1. plantain

   Synonym: zainbelar

Declension

Further reading

• “plantain” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “plantain” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??.t??/

Etymology 1

From Old French plantain, from Latin plant?g?, plant?ginem.

Noun

plantain m (plural plantains)

1. plantain, any plant of genus Plantago

Etymology 2

From banane plantain

Noun

plantain m (plural plantains)

1. plantain (fruit of the genus Musa)

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

From Latin plant?g?, plant?ginem.

Noun

plantain m (oblique plural plantainz, nominative singular plantainz, nominative plural plantain)

1. plantain, any plant of genus Plantago

Descendants

• English: plantain
• French: plantain