different between cicuta vs hemlock

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

From Middle English hemlok, hemeluc, from Old English hyml?c, hyml?ce (“hemlock, bryony, convolvulus”, literally “hops-like”), from hymele (“hop-vine”), from Proto-Germanic *humalaz, *humal?n, of unknown origin. Perhaps from Scythian, from *háwmah (“ephedra; juice”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sáwmas from Proto-Indo-European *sew- (“to press out, extract”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?m?l?k/

Noun

hemlock (countable and uncountable, plural hemlocks)

1. Any of the poisonous umbelliferous plants, of the genera
   1. Conium, either Conium maculatum or Conium chaerophylloides.
   2. Cicuta, water hemlock plant.
2. The poison obtained from these Conium and Cicuta plants.
4. Any of several coniferous trees, of the genus Tsuga, that grow in North America; the wood of such trees.

Synonyms

• (Conium):, devil's bread, devil's porridge, herb bennet, poison hemlock, poison parsley, Conium maculatum, Conium chaerophylloides
• (Cicuta): beaver poison, cowbane, musquash root, poison parsnip, spotted corobane, water hemlock

Derived terms

• eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Canadian hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
• Carolina hemlock (Tsuga caroliniana)
• Taiwan hemlock, Chinese hemlock (Tsuga chinensis)
• northern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga diversifolia)
• Himalayan hemlock (Tsuga dumosa)
• Forrest's hemlock (Tsuga forrestii)
• western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
• southern Japanese hemlock (Tsuga sieboldii)
• mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
• poison hemlock (Conium maculatum)
• hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
• hemlock water parsnip (Sium suave)

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