angelica

See also: Angelica, Angélica, angélica, angèlica, and angelică

English

angelica (Angelica archangelica).

Candied angelica stems.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ænˈd͡ʒɛlɪkə/

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Noun

angelica (countable and uncountable, plural angelicas)

1. A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).

   Synonym: archangel

   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 24:

     […] all ye shall shortly behold how, as one shattereth a stalk of angelica, I will break and shatter the limbs of this Goldry Bluszco.

2. Candied stems of the plant, used to decorate cookies.
3. Species of Aralia.
4. Synonym of angélique (“musical instrument”)

Derived terms

• angelica tree
• angelicin
• garden angelica
• little-leaf angelica (Selinum carvifolia)
• Norwegian angelica

 

Translations

plants of genus Angelica

• Arabic: حَشِيشَة المَلَاك f (ḥašīša al-malʔak)
• Belarusian: дзя́гі́ль m (dzjáhílʹ), дзя́гель m (dzjáhjelʹ)
• Catalan: angèlica f
• Chagatai: بالدیرغان (baldırğan), بالدیرغو (baldırğu)
• Chinese: please add this translation if you can

  Mandarin: 当归 (zh) (dāngguī)

• Czech: andělika (cs) f, děhel m
• Danish: kvan ?, kvaner ?
• Dutch: engelwortel (nl) m
• Esperanto: angeliko
• Faroese: hvonn f
• Finnish: karhunputki (fi), väinönputki (fi)
• French: angélique (fr) f
• German: Engelwurz f
• Greek: αγγελική (el) m (angelikí)
• Icelandic: hvönn (is) f
• Irish: ainglice f, gallfheabhrán m
• Italian: angelica f
• Japanese: シシウド (shishiudo), アンゼリカ (anzerika)
• Khakas: палтырған (paltırğan)
• Latvian: zirdzene f
• Lithuanian: šventagaršvė ?
• Maori: naupiro
• Mongolian: балчиргана (mn) (balčirgana)
• Norwegian: kvann f
• Old Norse: hvǫnn f
• Persian: سنبل ختایی (sombol-e xatâyi), سنبل خطایی (sombol-e xatâyi), گلپر (fa) (golpar) (also means hogweed), بلدرغو (baldarğu) (Afghanistan; also means hogweed)
• Polish: dzięgiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: angélica (pt) f
• Romanian: angelică (ro) f
• Russian: дя́гиль (ru) m (djágilʹ), ду́дник (ru) m (dúdnik), анге́лика (ru) f (angélika)
• Scottish Gaelic: aingealag f, cuinneag-mhìghe f, galluran m, iùran m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анђѐлика f

  Latin: anđèlika (sh) f

• Slovak: angelika f
• Slovene: angelika f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: dźehel (hsb) m

• Spanish: angélica (es) f
• Turkish:

  Classical Ottoman Turkish: سنبل خطایی (sümbül-i hetayı)

  Late Ottoman Turkish: ملك اوتی (melek otu)

  Modern Turkish: melek otu (tr)

• Ukrainian: дя́гель m (djáhelʹ)

candied stem

• French: angélique (fr) f
• Japanese: アンゼリカ (anzerika)
• Polish: anżelika f, dzięgiel (pl) m

References

• Angelica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Angelica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Angelica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒɛ.li.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɛlika
• Hyphenation: an‧gè‧li‧ca

Etymology 1

Adjective

angelica

1. feminine singular of angelico

Noun

angelica f (plural angeliche)

1. angelica (plant)

Etymology 2

Verb

angelica

1. inflection of angelicare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• canaglie, galenica

Latin

Pronunciation

• angelica: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡe.li.ka/, [äŋˈɡɛlʲɪkä]
• angelica: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.ka/, [än̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlikä]
• angelicā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /anˈɡe.li.kaː/, [äŋˈɡɛlʲɪkäː]
• angelicā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.ka/, [än̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlikä]

Adjective

angelica

1. inflection of angelicus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

angelicā

1. ablative feminine singular of angelicus

References

• angelica in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)