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crocs
English
Noun
crocs
- plural of croc
French
Noun
crocs m
- plural of croc
Norman
Noun
crocs
- plural of cro
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crocus
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?k???.k?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?k?o?.k?s/
- Rhymes: -??k?s
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krókos, “crocus”).
Noun
crocus (plural crocuses or croci or crocus)
- A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
- Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
- (chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
- (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From croker?”)
Noun
crocus (uncountable)
- (Jamaican, Trinidad and Tobago) Burlap.
- a crocus bag
Anagrams
- occurs, succor
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krókos, “crocus”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?k??.kus/
Noun
crocus m (plural crocus)
- crocus
Further reading
- “crocus” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “crocus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krókos, “crocus”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.kys/
Noun
crocus m (plural crocus)
- crocus (plant)
Further reading
- “crocus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Alternative forms
- crocum
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (krókos, “crocus”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?kro.kus/, [?k??k?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?kro.kus/, [?k???kus]
Noun
crocus m (genitive croc?); second declension
- crocus, saffron
Usage notes
Most often, the masculine crocus was used to refer to the plant, while the neuter crocum was used for saffron gathered from the plant. However, this distinction is not universally observed, and the word crocus may refer either to the crocus plant or to saffron taken from the plant.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Old Occitan: gròc, gruèc
- Catalan: groc
- ?? English: grog
- ? Sardinian: grogu
- Occitan: cròc
- Catalan: groc
- Galician: croque
- Italian: croco
- ? Catalan: crocus
- ? Czech: krokus
- ? Dutch: krokus
- ? English: crocus
- ? Finnish: krookus
- ? French: crocus
- ? German: Krokus
- ? Icelandic: krókus
- ? Norwegian: krokus
- ? Polish: krokus
- ? Portuguese: croco
- ? Russian: ??????? (krókus)
- ? Slovene: krokus
- ? Spanish: croco
- ? Swedish: krokus
- ? Translingual: Crocus
References
- crocus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- crocus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crocus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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