different between rutabaga vs radish

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +? bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??ut??be???/

Noun

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.ta.ba.?a/

Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo

English

Etymology

From Middle English radishe, redich, radiche, raddik, radike, redic, from Old English redic, rædic, from Vulgar Latin r?d?ce, the ablative singular of r?d?x (“root of a plant; radish”); later influenced by Anglo-Norman radich, radice, and Middle French radice (modern French radis), also from Latin. Cognate with Danish reddike, ræddike, Italian radice, Middle Dutch radic, Old High German ratih, retih (Middle High German retich, modern German Rettich, Rettig), Old Saxon redik (Middle Low German r?dik, reddik, r?tik, and other forms), Old Swedish rädikia, rätikia, and other forms (modern Swedish rättika), Portuguese radiz.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ad??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æd??/
• Rhymes: -æd??
• Hyphenation: ra?dish

Noun

radish (plural radishes)

1. A plant of the Brassicaceae family, Raphanus sativus or Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, having an edible root.
   • 1659 (indicated as 1660), Robert Sharrock, “Of Propagation by Seed”, in The History of the Propagation & Improvement of Vegetables by the Concurrence of Art and Nature: [...], Oxford: Printed by A. Lichfield, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, ?OCLC, pages 14–15:

     Many times they ?ow divers ?eeds in a Bed together, as Radi?hes and Carrots, that by ?uch time as the Carrots come up, the Radi?hes may be gone. Upon beds newly ?et with Licorice they ?ow Onions or Radi?h, or Lettice if their Licorice plants or ground be but weak, ?o as not quickly to cau?e a ?hadow with their leaves.
2. The root of this plant used as food. Some varieties are pungent and usually eaten raw in salads, etc., while others have a milder taste and are cooked.
3. With a distinguishing word: some other plant of the Raphanus genus or Brassicaceae family.

Derived terms

Translations

Descendants

• ? Maori: r?tihi

See also

• daikon
• mooli

Further reading

• radish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Dahirs, Rashid

Middle English

Noun

radish

1. Alternative form of radiche