convolvulus
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Convolvulus arvensis
See also: Convolvulus
English
Etymology
From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).
Noun
convolvulus (plural convolvuluses or convolvuli)
- (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
- 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 318:
- Toward it the torrent raced furiously, fed from above, where, down the left bank, transformed abruptly into a great wall of vegetation, water was spouting into the stream through thickets festooned with convolvuli on a higher level than the topmost trees of the jungle.
- 1994, Edmund Swinglehurst, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library, Parragon Book Service Limited, →ISBN, “Stages of Cruelty · 1856–90 · Ford Madox Brown”, page 38/2:
- In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.
- (zoology) A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51,
- Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51,
Synonyms
Translations
plants of the genus Convolvulus
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /konˈu̯ol.u̯u.lus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈvol.vu.lus/,
Noun
convolvulus m (genitive convolvulī); second declension
- the caterpillar of the vine moth (Eupoecilia ambiguella), which wraps itself up in the leaves of the vine
- larger bindweed, hedge bindweed, Rutland beauty, bugle vine, heavenly trumpets, bellbind, granny-pop-out-of-bed (Calystegia sepium)
- (Medieval Latin) colic (severe pains that grip the abdomen, or the disease that causes such pains)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | convolvulus | convolvulī |
| Genitive | convolvulī | convolvulōrum |
| Dative | convolvulō | convolvulīs |
| Accusative | convolvulum | convolvulōs |
| Ablative | convolvulō | convolvulīs |
| Vocative | convolvule | convolvulī |
Synonyms
Descendants
- Translingual: Convolvulus (genus name)
- English: convolvulus
- Italian: convolvolo
- Portuguese: convólvulo
- Spanish: convólvulo
References
- “convolvŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- convolvulus 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)
- convolvŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 427/2.
- “conuoluolus” on page 441/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)