different between fungus vs ergotism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus (“mushroom”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/
• Rhymes: -????s

Noun

fungus (countable and uncountable, plural fungi or funguses)

1. (mycology) Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
2. (now rare, pathology) A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.

Hyponyms

• (organism): ascomycete, basidiomycete, mold, mushroom, toadstool, yeast

Derived terms

Related terms

• fungous

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fungus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.??s/, /?f??.??s/
• Hyphenation: fun?gus

Noun

fungus m (plural fungi)

1. (mycology) fungus, member of the kingdom Fungi

Related terms

• fungicidaal
• fungicide
• spons

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.?ys/

Noun

fungus m (plural fungus)

1. Alternative spelling of fongus

Latin

Etymology

Originally sfungus. Likely a loanword from a non-Indo-European substrate language. Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (spóngos) (whence Latin spongia) and Old Armenian ?????? (sunkn).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?f????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fun.?us/, [?fu??us]

Noun

fungus m (genitive fung?); second declension

1. a mushroom; a fungus
2. a fungal growth or infection
3. a candle-snuff
4. (figuratively) dolt, idiot

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fung?nus
• fung?sus
• fungulus

Related terms

• fungidus

Descendants

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fungus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fungus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fungus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Etymology 1

ergot +? -ism

Noun

ergotism (countable and uncountable, plural ergotisms)

1. The plant disease caused by ergot.
2. The effect of long-term ergot poisoning, traditionally due to the ingestion of the alkaloids produced by the Claviceps purpurea fungus which infects rye and other cereals, and more recently by the action of a number of ergoline-based drugs consisting of convulsive and gangrenous symptoms.
3. The usage of ergot infested grain to poison animals.

Synonyms

• ergotoxicosis
• Saint Anthony's fire

Etymology 2

French ergotisme, from Latin ergo.

Noun

ergotism (plural ergotisms)

1. A logical deduction.
   • c. 1670s, Thomas Browne, Christian Morals

     States are not governed by Ergotisms. Many have Ruled will who could not perhaps define a Commonwealth […]

Anagrams

• gritsome

Romanian

Etymology

From French ergotisme

Noun

ergotism n (uncountable)

1. ergotism

Declension