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Crocus sativus

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Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”), from an ancient Semitic language.

Noun

crocus (plural crocuses or croci or crocus or crocusses)

  2. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
  • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 128:
    Nothing is more short-lived than the erection; like the crocus of spring, it is there for a moment, and then it is gone; one moment the penis is small, soft, and insignificant, and then in the next it is hard, rigid, and three and four times its previous size.
  • Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
  • (inorganic chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
  • (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.
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    Etymology 2

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From croker?”)

    Noun

    crocus (uncountable)

    1. (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) Burlap.
      a crocus bag

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    Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    crocus m (invariable)

    1. crocus

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    French

    Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    crocus m (plural crocus)

    1. crocus (plant)

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    Latin

    crocus (crocus plant)

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, “crocus”).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    crocus m (genitive crocī); second declension

    1. crocus, saffron

    Usage notes

    Most often, the masculine crocus was used to refer to the plant, while the neuter crocum was used for saffron gathered from the plant. However, this distinction is not universally observed, and the word crocus may refer either to the crocus plant or to saffron taken from the plant.

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative crocus crocī
    genitive crocī crocōrum
    dative crocō crocīs
    accusative crocum crocōs
    ablative crocō crocīs
    vocative croce crocī

    Descendants

    References

    • crocus 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)
    • “crocus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “crocus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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