Jump to content

ranunculus

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: Ranunculus

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia
Ranunculus repens

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from translingual Ranunculus, from Latin rānunculus.

Noun

[edit]

ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)

  1. Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.

Synonyms

[edit]
[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Finnish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Latin rānunculus.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈrɑnuŋkulus/, [ˈrɑ̝nuŋˌkulus̠]
  • Rhymes: -ulus

Noun

[edit]

ranunculus (rare)

  1. (botany) ranunculus (plant of the genus Ranunculus)

Declension

[edit]
Inflection of ranunculus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative ranunculus ranunculukset
genitive ranunculuksen ranunculusten
ranunculuksien
partitive ranunculusta ranunculuksia
illative ranunculukseen ranunculuksiin
singular plural
nominative ranunculus ranunculukset
accusative nom. ranunculus ranunculukset
gen. ranunculuksen
genitive ranunculuksen ranunculusten
ranunculuksien
partitive ranunculusta ranunculuksia
inessive ranunculuksessa ranunculuksissa
elative ranunculuksesta ranunculuksista
illative ranunculukseen ranunculuksiin
adessive ranunculuksella ranunculuksilla
ablative ranunculukselta ranunculuksilta
allative ranunculukselle ranunculuksille
essive ranunculuksena ranunculuksina
translative ranunculukseksi ranunculuksiksi
abessive ranunculuksetta ranunculuksitta
instructive ranunculuksin
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of ranunculus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)

Synonyms

[edit]

Latin

[edit]
rānunculī (tadpoles)

Etymology

[edit]

From rāna (frog) +‎ -unculus (diminutive suffix). An irregularly formed diminutive in several ways: the ending -unculus was rarely used as a suffix, more often appearing when the diminutive suffix -culus is added to a stem ending in /n/, and the gender of a Latin diminutive usually is the same as that of the base word, but in this case changes from feminine to masculine. See also rānula, another diminutive from rāna.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

rānunculus m (genitive rānunculī); second declension

  1. a little frog, polliwog, tadpole
  2. buttercup, crowfoot (Ranunculus)

Declension

[edit]

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rānunculus rānunculī
genitive rānunculī rānunculōrum
dative rānunculō rānunculīs
accusative rānunculum rānunculōs
ablative rānunculō rānunculīs
vocative rānuncule rānunculī
[edit]

Descendants

[edit]

References

[edit]
  • ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ranunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.