different between tans vs tansy

English

Noun

tans

1. plural of tan

Verb

tans

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tan

Anagrams

• -stan, -stan-, ASNT, NTAs, Nast, Nats, Sant, Stan, Tsan, ants, nats, stan, stan'

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch thans.

Adverb

tans

1. now

Old French

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

tans m (oblique plural tans, nominative singular tans, nominative plural tans)

1. time
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Le soper, quant tans fu et ore

     Supper, when it was time

Derived terms

• lonc tans

Descendants

• French: temps

Picard

Etymology

From Latin tempus.

Noun

tans m (plural tans)

1. time

English

Etymology

From Old French tanesie, tanoisie, tanasie, tanaisie, from Medieval Latin tanacetum, atanacetum, attested since the 8th century, of obscure origin, speculated from Ancient Greek ???????? (athanasía, “immortality”) owing to hallucinations from the thujone in the plant, else from taenia (“tapeworm”) due to its primary use against parasites by which reason it is called in Arabic ???????? ??????? (?aš?ša ad-d?d, literally “worm herb”), otherwise a Berber borrowing like tagetes.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?tanzi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?tæn.zi/

Noun

tansy (countable and uncountable, plural tansies)

1. A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
   • 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 365:

     The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
   • 1662, Diary of Samuel Pepys:

     I had a pretty dinner for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.

Derived terms

• double tansy
• tansy mustard (Descurainia sophia)

Translations

See also

• pennyroyal
• savin

References

Anagrams

• -nasty, Ansty, Nasty, Santy, Yants, antsy, nasty