cyclamen

See also: Cyclamen

English

Wikispecies

Cyclamen graecum

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamino.

Noun

cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

  1. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
    Synonym: sowbread
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎:
      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
    • 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:
      An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]

Descendants
  • → Japanese: シクラメン (shikuramen)
  • → Chinese: 仙客來／仙客来 (xiānkèlái)

Translations

Anagrams

French

Noun
un cyclamen

cyclamen m (plural cyclamens)

  1. cyclamen

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈky.kla.men/, [ˈkʏkɫ̪ämɛn]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.kla.men/, [ˈt͡ʃiːklämen]

Noun

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

  1. Alternative form of cyclamīnos

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cyclamen cyclamina
Genitive cyclaminis cyclaminum
Dative cyclaminī cyclaminibus
Accusative cyclamen cyclamina
Ablative cyclamine cyclaminibus
Vocative cyclamen cyclamina

Descendants

References
  • cyclămĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3
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