different between pollinating vs nectar

English

Verb

pollinating

1. present participle of pollinate

Adjective

pollinating (not comparable)

1. That pollinates, or leads to pollination

English

Etymology

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek ?????? (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne?- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr?h? (“overcoming”), from *terh?- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?k.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?k.t??/
• Hyphenation: nec?tar

Noun

nectar (countable and uncountable, plural nectars)

1. (chiefly mythology) The drink of the gods. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.

2. (by extension) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice. [from 16th c.]
3. (botany) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds. [from 17th c.]

Related terms

• nectarine
• nectarous
• nectary

Translations

See also

• ambrosia
• pollen

Verb

nectar (third-person singular simple present nectars, present participle nectaring, simple past and past participle nectared)

1. (intransitive) To feed on nectar.
   • 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year (page 123)

     On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “nectar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Canter, Cretan, canter, carnet, centra, creant, recant, tanrec, trance

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

nectar m (plural nectars)

1. (Greek mythology, Roman mythology) nectar, beverage drunk by the Olympians

   Synonym: godendrank

   Coordinate term: ambrozijn

2. (botany, insects) nectar, liquid produced by flowers

French

Etymology

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek ?????? (néktar), from Proto-Indo-European *né?tr?h?, derived from the roots *ne?- (“to perish, disappear”) and *terh?- (“to overcome”).

Noun

nectar m (plural nectars)

1. nectar (all meanings)

Derived terms

• nectaire

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nek.tar/, [?n?kt?är]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nek.tar/, [?n?kt??r]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (néktar), from Proto-Indo-European *né?-tr?h?, derived from the roots *ne?- (“to perish”) and *terh?- (“to overcome”).

Noun

nectar n sg (genitive nectaris); third declension

1. nectar

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem), singular only.

Related terms

• nectareus

Descendants

• English: nectar
• French: nectar
• Italian: nettare
• Portuguese: néctar
• Spanish: néctar

References

• nectar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nectar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nectar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nectar in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

nectar

1. first-person singular future passive indicative of nect?