different between cicuta vs cowbane

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cic?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??kju?t?/

Noun

cicuta (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.

Anagrams

• Ciutac

Catalan

Alternative forms

• ceguda

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cic?ta. Doublet of ceguda.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /si?ku.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /si?ku.ta/

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutes)

1. hemlock (Conium maculatum)

Further reading

• “cicuta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cicuta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin cic?ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??i?ku.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: ci?cù?ta

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicute)

1. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Cicuta: the Cicuta taxonomic genus
2. water hemlock, cowbane (any poisonous plant of the genus Cicuta)
3. hemlock (poison)

Derived terms

Anagrams

• cucita

References

• cicuta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cicuta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti

Latin

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ki?ku?.ta/, [k??ku?t?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??i?ku.ta/, [t??i?ku?t??]

Noun

cic?ta f (genitive cic?tae); first declension

1. a plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa
2. the juice of the hemlock given to prisoners as poison
3. a pipe or flute made from the stalks or stems of the hemlock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• cic?ticen

Descendants

References

• cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cicuta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”). Compare the inherited doublet cegude.

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant of genus Conium)

Further reading

• “cicuta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?i?kuta/, [?i?ku.t?a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /si?kuta/, [si?ku.t?a]

Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

cow +? bane

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?be?n/

Noun

cowbane (usually uncountable, plural cowbanes)

1. Any of several related poisonous plants of the genus Cicuta
2. Cicuta virosa, the name species of this genus.

Synonyms

• (plant in Cicuta): water hemlock, poison parsnip
• (Cicuta virosa): northern water hemlock

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Further reading

• cowbane on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cicuta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia