different between mustard vs hippopotamus

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From Middle English mustard, from Old French moustarde (French: moutarde), from moust (“must”), from Latin mustum. Compare Saterland Frisian Muster (“mustard”), Dutch mosterd (“mustard”), German Low German Musterd (“mustard”), Icelandic mustarður (“mustard”). Displaced Middle English senep, from Old English senep. Doublet of mostarda.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?s?-t?rd, IPA^(key): /?m?st?rd/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?mas.t?d]
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m?s.t?d]
• Hyphenation: mus?tard
• Homophone: mustered

Noun

mustard (usually uncountable, plural mustards)

1. A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods).
2. Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.

3. The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

4. Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.

5. One of a family of vesicants containing one or more 2-chloroethyl (C₂H₄Cl) groups, commonly used in chemical warfare and cancer chemotherapy.
6. The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Synonyms

• senvy (obsolete)

Hyponyms

(vesicant containing 2-chloroethyl groups):

• mustard gas
• nitrogen mustard

Translations

Adjective

mustard (not comparable)

1. Of a dark yellow colour.
   • 2007, Cincinnati Magazine (page 81)

     Everything about her year-old restaurant, from the minimalist menu (about a dozen items) with refreshingly drivel-free descriptions to the decor (unadorned warm mustard walls, unclothed bistro tables), reflects her love of bringing people to the table for good, simple food that's not eclipsed by bells and whistles.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• must (grape juice)

See also

Anagrams

• durmast, murtads

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mostard, mostarde, mustart, mustarde, musterd

Etymology

From Old French moustarde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mustard(?)/, /?must?rd(?)/

Noun

mustard

1. A mustard plant; the plant where mustard seeds originate.
2. The seeds of this plant used as a spice or flavouring.
3. Mustard; a condiment made from mustard seeds.

Descendants

• English: mustard
• Scots: mustard, mustart

References

• “mustard, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-11.

English

Alternative forms

• hippopotamos (archaic)
• hippotamus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin and New Latin hippopotamus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (hippopótamos), from ????? (híppos, “horse”) (English hippo-) + ??????? (potamós, “river”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?p.??p?t.?.m?s/
• Hyphenation: hip?po?po?ta?mus

Noun

hippopotamus (plural hippopotamuses or hippopotamusses or hippopotami or hippopotamoi or hippopotamus)

1. A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius).

Synonyms

• (semi-aquatic mammal): hippo, river horse

Derived terms

• pygmy hippopotamus

Related terms

• hippo-
• potamic

Translations

Synonyms

• (a large, herbivorous African mammal): hippo, river horse

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????????? (hippopótamos), from ????? (híppos, “horse”) + ??????? (potamós, “river”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hip.po?po.ta.mus/, [h?p???p?t?äm?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ip.po?po.ta.mus/, [ip???p??t??mus]

Noun

hippopotamus m (genitive hippopotam?); second declension

1. a hippopotamus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: hippopotamus
• Portuguese: hipopótamo

References

• hippopotamus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hippopotamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette