different between daffodil vs narcissus

English

Etymology

Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. (Compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæf??d?l/

Adjective

daffodil (comparative more daffodil, superlative most daffodil)

1. Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

Noun

daffodil (plural daffodils)

1. A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
2. A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.

Translations

Related terms

• daff

Coordinate terms

• asphodel
• hippeastrum (Hippeastrum)
• jonquil
• Lent lily
• star grass
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• daffodil on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to ????? (nárk?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n???s?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s?s

Noun

narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)

Wikispecies

1. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
2. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos).

Noun

narcissus m (genitive narciss?); second declension

1. narcissus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• narcissus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• narcissus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray