different between crocus vs colchicum

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)

1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
3. (chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
4. (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)

1. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. 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
• 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

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kolkhikón).

Noun

colchicum (countable and uncountable, plural colchicums)

1. (countable) Any of several flowers of the genus Colchicum.
2. (uncountable, medicine) The dried seed of the poisonous meadow saffron, Colchicum autumnale, used medicinally.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 87:

     Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout.

Related terms

• colchicine

Latin

Adjective

colchicum

1. nominative neuter singular of colchicus
2. accusative masculine singular of colchicus
3. accusative neuter singular of colchicus
4. vocative neuter singular of colchicus