different between elecampane vs inula

English

Etymology

From Middle English elena campana, from a confusion of Latin enula campana and helenium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??l?kam?pe?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??l?kæm?pe?n/

Noun

elecampane (countable and uncountable, plural elecampanes)

1. A tall Eurasian herb, Inula helenium, whose roots have been used medicinally

   Synonyms: horseheal, scabwort

   Hypernym: inula

Translations

Further reading

• Inula helenium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inula helenium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Inula helenium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??nj?l?/, /??nj?l?/

Noun

inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:

     In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.

2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

Translations

Further reading

• Inula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• uinal

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inula.

Noun

inula f (plural inule)

1. inula

Latin

Alternative forms

• enula (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [??n???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [?i?nul?]

Noun

inula f (genitive inulae); first declension

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: inula
• ? Italian: inula

References

• inula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers