narcissus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to νάρκη (nárkē).
- (General American) IPA(key): /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/
- Rhymes: -ɪsəs
narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)
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- 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.
- A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus
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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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)
From Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos).
narcissus m (genitive narcissī); second declension
Second-declension noun.
- “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