narcissus

See also: Narcissus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to νάρκη (nárkē).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsəs

Noun

narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)

Narcissus (Narcissus poeticus)

Wikispecies

2. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Second Pastoral. Or, Alexis.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 6:

     The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]

   • 2014 September 26, Charles Quest-Ritson, “The Dutch garden where tulip bulbs live forever: Hortus Bulborum, a volunteer-run Dutch garden, is dedicated to conserving historic varieties before they vanish for good [print version: Inspired by a living bulb archive, 27 September 2014, p. G5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎^[1]:

     At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.

3. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Derived terms

• narcissus-flowered anemone

Translations

any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus

• Arabic: نَرْجِس m (narjis)
• Armenian: նարգիզ (hy) (nargiz)
• Azerbaijani: nərgiz (az)
• Bashkir: нәркәс (nərkəs)
• Bengali: নার্গিস (bn) (nargiś)
• Bulgarian: нарцис (bg) m (narcis)
• Catalan: narcís (ca) m
• Chagatai: نرگس
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水仙 (zh) (shuǐxiān)

• Czech: narcis (cs) m
• Danish: påskelilje (da) c
• Dutch: narcis (nl) m
• Esperanto: narciso (eo) c
• Faroese: páskalilja f
• Finnish: narsissi (fi)
• French: narcisse (fr) m
• Georgian: ნარგიზი (nargizi)
• German: Narzisse (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: νάρκισσος m (nárkissos)

• Hindi: नरगिस (hi) m (nargis), नर्गिस (hi) (nargis)
• Icelandic: páskalilja f
• Irish: lus an chromchinn m, lus an aisig m
• Italian: narciso (it) m
• Japanese: 水仙 (ja) (すいせん, suisen)
• Kazakh: нәркес (närkes)
• Korean: 수선화 (ko) (suseonhwa)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: نێرگز (ckb) (nêrgiz)

• Malay: nargis
• Ottoman Turkish: نرگس (nergis)
• Pashto: نرګس m (nargis)
• Persian: نرگس (fa) (narges)
• Polish: narcyz (pl) m
• Portuguese: narciso (pt) m
• Punjabi: نَرگِس f (nargis)
• Romanian: narcisă (ro) f
• Russian: нарци́сс (ru) m (narcíss)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нарцис m

  Roman: narcis (sh) m

• Sindhi: نرگس
• Spanish: narciso (es) m
• Swahili: mnasisa
• Swedish: narciss (sv) c
• Tibetan: ཆུ་ལྷ། (chu lha)
• Turkish: nergis (tr)
• Turkmen: nerkes
• Urdu: نرگس (ur) m (nargis)
• Uyghur: نەرگىس (nergis)
• Uzbek: nargis (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuỷ tiên (vi)

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).

Noun

narcissus m (genitive narcissī); second declension

1. narcissus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	narcissus	narcissī
genitive	narcissī	narcissōrum
dative	narcissō	narcissīs
accusative	narcissum	narcissōs
ablative	narcissō	narcissīs
vocative	narcisse	narcissī

References

• “narcissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “narcissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus 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)
• “narcissus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “narcissus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “narcissus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray