different between orchis vs orchils

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

Noun

orchils

1. plural of orchil

Anagrams

• Chloris