anemone English · revision 1934

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /əˈnɛməni/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|anemone]] and directly [[der|la|anemone]],^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline) [[der|grc|ἀνεμώνη|tr=anemṓnē|t=wind flower]],^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU) literally “daughter of the wind”,^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) [[af|grc|ἄνεμος|-ώνη|tr1=ánemos|tr2=-ṓnē|t1=wind|t2=feminine patronymic suffix]].^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)^(RHWU) The French form was corrected in the 16th century from Old French ''anemoine''.^(Barnhart 1995)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A plant of the buttercup family with showy flowers (1548 in Barnhart and Merriam-Webster, 1551 in the OED).^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ According to Asa Gray, quoted by Etymonline, the plant was so called because the flower was thought to open only when the wind blows.^(Etymonline) Klein suggested instead that the name may have come originally from Hebrew.^(Etymonline) In zoology the word was applied from 1773 to the [[sea anemone]],^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) probably as a shortening of that name, which is recorded by 1742.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1545–55 – Random House's dating.^(RHWU)

+ * 1548 – the plant (Barnhart, Merriam-Webster).^(Barnhart 1995)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1742 – ''sea anemone''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1773 – the sea creature.^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Any of a large genus of [[perennial]] [[herb|alt=herbs]] of the [[buttercup]] family, with lobed leaves and showy flowers whose colored [[sepal|alt=sepals]] take the place of petals; also called [[windflower]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[sea anemone]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)^(RHWU)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Japanese anemone]]

+ * [[rue anemone]]

+ * [[wood anemone]]

+ * [[clown anemone]]

+ * [[sea anemone]]

+ * [[anemone fish]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[animal]]

+ * [[animus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}