different between gentian vs picon

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Via Middle English from Latin genti?na, which, according to Pliny, was named after Gentius, the last king of Illyria, who supposedly discovered the plant's medicinal benefits. This has been dismissed as folk etymology but the word may still ultimately be of Illyrian origin, as -an is a common suffix in Illyrian words.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n(t)??n/

Noun

gentian (plural gentians)

1. Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, Crime out of Mind,^[1], chapter 1:

     On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.

2. The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.

Derived terms

• horse gentian (Triosteum spp.)
• white gentian (Gentiana alba)
• yellow gentian (Gentiana alba (US), Gentiana lutea)

Translations

Anagrams

• anteing, antigen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French picon, named after inventor Gaétan Picon (1809–1882).

Noun

picon (countable and uncountable, plural picons)

1. A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.

Further reading

• picon (apéritif) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Esperanto

Noun

picon

1. accusative singular of pico

French

Etymology

From the brandname Picon, named after Gaétan Picon (1809–1882).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.k??/

Noun

picon m (plural picons)

1. picon (bitter accompanying beer)

Further reading

• “picon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).