different between centaurea vs hardhead

English

Noun

centaurea (plural centaureas)

1. Alternative spelling of centaury

Italian

Noun

centaurea f (plural centauree)

1. centaury, star thistle (Centaurea)

Latin

Alternative forms

• centauria

Etymology

Accessory form of centaur?um in the Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kentaúreion, “several plants related to Centaurea”), from ????????? (kéntauros, “centaur”) (due to the mythological discovery of its medicinal properties by Chiron the Centaur).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ken.tau??re?.a/, [k?n?t?äu???e?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??en.tau??re.a/, [t???n?t??u??r???]

Noun

centaur?a f (genitive centaur?ae); first declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of centaur?um

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Dutch: centaurie
• Old English: centaurie
  • Middle English: centaure
    • English: centaury
• French: centaurée
• Ido: centaureo
• Italian: centaurea
• Norman: centaurée
• Occitan: centaurèa
• Portuguese: centáurea
• Translingual: Centaurea

References

• centaur?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

English

Etymology

hard +? head

Noun

hardhead (plural hardheads)

1. One who is practical or hardheaded.
2. A brown diving duck, Aythya australis, native to Australia.
3. Any of various freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Mylopharodon, or of saltwater sciaenid (Sciaenidae) fishes.
4. Any of several weeds in or formerly classified in the genus Centaurea, particularly Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).
5. (metallurgy) Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
6. (obsolete) Clash or collision of heads in contest.

   • Both play at hardhead till they break their brains

7. (historical) A Scottish billon coin circulated in the reigns of Mary and James VI.

Translations

Further reading

• Aythya australis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Mylopharadon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sciaenidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Centaurea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acroptilon repens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies