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Cyclamen graecum

Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.

cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

  2. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
    Synonym: sowbread

    • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:

      An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.

    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

      Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

    • 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:

      An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]

A type of plant

From Latin cyclamen.

cyclamen n (plural cyclamens)

  1. (botany) Synonym of cyclaam
  • This form is mostly used in technical contexts, cyclaam being the more standard choice.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cyclamen

  1. plural of cyclaam
un cyclamen

cyclamen m (plural cyclamens)

  1. cyclamen

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

  1. Alternative form of cyclamīnos

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

  • cyclămĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.