petunia
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Petunia, from (now obsolete) French pétun (“the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈtʲuːni.ə/
- (Standard Southern British) IPA(key): /pəˈtʲuːnjə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /pəˈtʃuːnjə/
- (US) IPA(key): /pəˈtuːniə/
- (US) IPA(key): /pəˈtuːnjə/
Noun
[edit]petunia (plural petunias)
- Any of the flowering plants of genus Petunia, of which most garden varieties are hybrids.
- 2002, Larry Hodgson, Annuals for Every Purpose, page 57:
- Usually petunias are quite pest free, but aphids are occasional problems.
- 2003, Norman Winter, Tough-As-Nails Flowers for the South, page 39:
- The small purple petunias are produced in profusion and without ceasing during the entire season.
- 2013, Jan Riggenbach, Your Midwest Garden: An Owner's Manual, page 18:
- Closely related calibrachoas, often called miniature petunias, offer dainty petunia-like blossoms that are perfect for planting in pots.
No matter what type of petunias you choose, they all prefer plenty of sun.
- A dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
- petunia:
- (slang) a homosexual
Derived terms
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Adjective
[edit]petunia (not comparable)
- Of a dark purple colour, like that of some petunia flowers.
Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Petunia in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “petunia”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Petunia, from French petun (“obsolete word for the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]petunia
Declension
[edit]Inflection of petunia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | petunia | petuniat | |
genitive | petunian | petunioiden petunioitten | |
partitive | petuniaa | petunioita | |
illative | petuniaan | petunioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | petunia | petuniat | |
accusative | nom. | petunia | petuniat |
gen. | petunian | ||
genitive | petunian | petunioiden petunioitten petuniain rare | |
partitive | petuniaa | petunioita | |
inessive | petuniassa | petunioissa | |
elative | petuniasta | petunioista | |
illative | petuniaan | petunioihin | |
adessive | petunialla | petunioilla | |
ablative | petunialta | petunioilta | |
allative | petunialle | petunioille | |
essive | petuniana | petunioina | |
translative | petuniaksi | petunioiksi | |
abessive | petuniatta | petunioitta | |
instructive | — | petunioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “petunia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Petunia, from French petun (“obsolete word for the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.
Noun
[edit]petunia f (plural petunie)
- petunia (flower)
Anagrams
[edit]Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Petunia, from French petun, from Guaraní pety.
Noun
[edit]petunia m (definite singular petuniaen, indefinite plural petuniaer or petunia, definite plural petuniaene)
References
[edit]Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin Petunia, from French petun, from Guaraní pety.
Noun
[edit]petunia m (definite singular petuniaen, indefinite plural petuniaer or petuniaar, definite plural petuniaene or petuniaane)
References
[edit]- “petunia” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism; compare English petunia, French pétunia, German Petunie, ultimately from New Latin Petunia, from French pétun, from Portuguese petum, from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]petunia f
Declension
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- petunia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- petunia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]petunia f (plural petunias)
Further reading
[edit]- “petunia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- English terms borrowed from New Latin
- English terms derived from New Latin
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Paraguayan Guaraní
- English 4-syllable words
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- English 3-syllable words
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- English lemmas
- English nouns
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- English slang
- English adjectives
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- English terms suffixed with -ia
- en:Flowers
- en:Nightshades
- en:Purples
- Finnish terms derived from New Latin
- Finnish terms derived from French
- Finnish terms derived from Portuguese
- Finnish terms derived from Paraguayan Guaraní
- Finnish 4-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɑ/4 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- fi:Flowers
- Italian terms derived from New Latin
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian terms derived from Portuguese
- Italian terms derived from Paraguayan Guaraní
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Flowers
- it:Nightshades
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from New Latin
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from French
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Guaraní
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål masculine nouns
- nb:Flowers
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from New Latin
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from French
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Guaraní
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Flowers
- Polish internationalisms
- Polish terms derived from New Latin
- Polish terms derived from French
- Polish terms derived from Portuguese
- Polish terms derived from Paraguayan Guaraní
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/uɲja
- Rhymes:Polish/uɲja/3 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish feminine nouns
- pl:Flowers
- pl:Nightshades
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/unja
- Rhymes:Spanish/unja/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Flowers