anemone Latin · revision 4013

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=grc ἀνεμώνη}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [a.nɛˈmoː.neː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [a.neˈmɔː.ne]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''anemōnē''' ''f'' (genitive anemōnēs); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|ἀνεμώνη|tr=anemṓnē|t=anemone]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Etymonline derives the Greek from [[m|grc|ἄνεμος|tr=ánemos|t=wind]], “daughter of the wind”, and also reports Klein's suggestion of a Hebrew source, while Köbler calls its further origin unclear.^(Etymonline)^(Köbler 2010) Pliny says it was so named because the flower opens only when the wind blows.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in Pliny the Elder, who distinguishes the garland anemones from the medicinal ones.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) Köbler dates Pliny 23/24–79 AD and names Ovid as an earlier source.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It named one or another species of anemone or windflower, and Pliny describes it as the flower of a wild bulb and adds that it grows most abundantly in the Alpine districts of warmer regions.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Georges connects the name instead with the ease with which the wind strips its petals, citing Ovid's Metamorphoses.^(Georges 1913) Pliny also applies the name to the plant othonna.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin it was used of the wild poppy and of the garland windflower.^(MLW)^(DMLBS) English ''anemone'' came from French and directly from Latin in the 1550s.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid, according to Köbler, is its first source.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder describes several kinds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1550s – English ''anemone'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|anemone]], [[m|en|windflower]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The plant othonna.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' The wild [[m|en|poppy]].^(MLW)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|anemone]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}