different between narcissus vs scyphus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to ????? (nárk?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n???s?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s?s

Noun

narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)

Wikispecies

1. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
2. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos).

Noun

narcissus m (genitive narciss?); second declension

1. narcissus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• narcissus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• narcissus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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