different between larix vs tamarack

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (lárix), possibly a loan from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *daru, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?la.riks/, [???ä??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?la.riks/, [?l???iks]

Noun

larix f (genitive laricis); third declension

1. larch (Larix, tree)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Lombard: larez
• ? Basque: laritz
• ? Catalan: làrix
• ? Dutch: lariks
• ? Georgian: ??????? (lariksi)
• ? Greek: ??????? (lárikas)
• ? Irish: learóg
• ? Italian: larice
• ? Portuguese: lariço
• ? Romanian: larice
• ? Scottish Gaelic: learag
• ? Translingual: Larix
• ? West Germanic: *larikkj? (see there for further descendants)

References

• larix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• larix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• larix in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

English

Etymology

From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word.

In the 19th century, some authorities questioned if tacamahac, tamarack, and hackmatack could be cognate to one another, perhaps all corruptions of one term, but such cognacy is unlikely.

Noun

tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks)

1. Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.
   • 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin 2008, p. 36:

     The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.

2. The wood from such a tree.

Synonyms

• hackmatack
• tacamahac

References