different between orchis vs orchid

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Orchis, from Ancient Greek ????? (órkhis).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.k?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.k?s/

Noun

orchis (plural orchises)

1. Any plant of the genus Orchis; an orchid. [16th C.]
   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

2. (anatomy) testis

Related terms

• orchid

Translations

References

• “orchis” in Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary. (2012).

Anagrams

• Orcish, Schiro, chiros, choirs, ichors, orcish

French

Etymology

Calque of translingual Orchis.

Noun

orchis m (plural orchis)

1. (botany) orchis (Orchis)

   Hypernym: orchidée

Derived terms

References

• “orchis” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “orchis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?or.k?is/, [??rk??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?or.kis/, [??rkis]

Noun

orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension

1. orchid (flower)
2. kind of olive

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Descendants

• ? English: orchis
• ? Translingual: Orchis
• ? New Latin: Orchideae, Orchidaceae
  • ? Albanian: orkide
  • ? Catalan: orquídia
  • ? Czech: orchidea, orchidej
  • ? English: orchid
  • ? Finnish: orkidea
  • ? French: orchidée
    • ? German: Orchidee
      • ? Dutch: orchidee
      • ? Estonian: orhidee
    • ? Malagasy: orkide
    • ? Norwegian: orkidé
    • ? Romanian: orhidee
    • ? Swedish: orkidé
    • ? Turkish: orkide
  • ? Galician: orquídea
  • ? Greek: ??????? (orchidéa)
  • ? Hungarian: orchidea
  • ? Italian: orchidea
  • ? Lithuanian: orchid?ja
  • ? Macedonian: ???????? (orhideja)
  • ? Polish: orchidea
  • ? Portuguese: orquídea
  • ? Russian: ???????? (orxidéja)
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: ???????? (orhideja)
  • ? Slovene: orhideja
  • ? Spanish: orquídea

References

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

English

Etymology

From New Latin Orchideae, Orchidaceae, an irregular formation from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ????? (órkhis, “orchid, testicle”) (ostensibly from the shape of the roots). Supplanted Middle English ballockwort (literally “testicle plant”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.k?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???.k?d/

Noun

orchid (plural orchids)

1. A plant of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), bearing unusually-shaped flowers of beautiful colours. [mid-19th C.]
2. A light bluish-red, violet-red or purple colour.

Translations

Adjective

orchid (not comparable)

1. (colour) having a light purple colour.

Translations

Related terms

• orchis

Derived terms

See also

References

Anagrams

• rhodic