different between lichen vs scyphus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin l?ch?n (“ringworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?'k?n, IPA^(key): /?la?.k?n/
• (also, especially in the UK) IPA^(key): /?l?.t??n/
• Rhymes: -a?k?n, -?t??n
• Homophone: liken

Noun

lichen (countable and uncountable, plural lichens or lichen)

1. Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow patches on old walls, etc.
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, ch XI

     It was the same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a perpetual twilight.

   • 1915, John Muir, Travels in Alaska, ch V

     The nibble marks of the stone adze were still visible, though crusted over with scale lichens in most places.

2. (figuratively) Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.

   Synonym: cancer

Hyponyms

• (symbiotic organism): macrolichen, microlichen

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• lichen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• algae
• fungus
• Iceland moss
• moss
• reindeer moss

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lichen, from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li.k?n/

Noun

lichen m (plural lichens)

1. lichen

Derived terms

• lichen plan
• lichénique

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• chelin

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (leikh?n).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?li?.k?e?n/, [?li?k?e?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?li.ken/, [?li?k?n]

Noun

l?ch?n m (genitive l?ch?nos or l?ch?nis); third declension

1. (literally) a cryptogamic species of vegetation growing on trees, lichen
2. (transferred sense, medicine) an eruption on the skin of men and beasts, a tetter, ringworm
   1. (and especially) a callous excrescence upon the leg of a horse, used as a medicine

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, normal variant or non-Greek-type).

Derived terms

• l?ch?nif?rmis

Related terms

• l?ch?na
• l?ch?nicos

Descendants

• English: lichen
• French: lichen
• Galician: lique
• Portuguese: líquen
• Spanish: liquen

References

• l?ch?n in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• l?ch?n in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 909/3
• “l?ch?n” on page 1,029/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Romanian

Etymology

From French lichen

Noun

lichen m (plural licheni)

1. lichen

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scyphus (“cup”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (skúphos).

Noun

scyphus (plural scyphi)

1. A kind of large drinking cup used in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, especially by poor people.
2. (botany) The cup of a narcissus, or a similar appendage to the corolla in other flowers.
3. (lichenology) A cup-shaped stem or podetium in lichens.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (skúphos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sky.p?us/, [?s?k?p??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??i.fus/, [??i?fus]

Noun

scyphus m (genitive scyph?); second declension

1. cup, goblet
2. communion cup

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: scyphus

References

• scyphus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scyphus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scyphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scyphus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scyphus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin