different between gomphus vs chanterelle

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (gómphos, “peg, nail”).

Noun

gomphus m (genitive gomph?); second declension

1. nail, dowel, peg

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Galician: golfón
• Old French: gonz, gons, gond
  • French: gond
  • Spanish: gozne, gonce
  • Portuguese: gonzo
  • Galician: gonzo
• Portuguese: gonfo-

References

• gomphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gomphus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gomphus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chanterelle, from New Latin cantharellus, diminutive of Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?t?ænt???l/, /??nt????l/

Noun

chanterelle (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) A widely distributed edible mushroom, Cantharellus cibarius, being yellow and trumpet-shaped; or any similar mushroom of the genera Cantharellus, Polyozellus or Gomphus, not all of which are edible.
   • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, p. 98:

     Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.

2. (music) The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.

Synonyms

• (mushroom): girolle

Derived terms

• black chanterelle
• funnel chanterelle

Translations

Further reading

• chanterelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.t??l/

Etymology 1

From the genus name, New Latin Cantharellus, from Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”).

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (mycology) chanterelle

   Synonym: girolle

Descendants

• ? English: chanterelle

Etymology 2

chanter +? -elle

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

1. (music) chanterelle (highest string of the violin or similar instrument)

Further reading

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