inula

English

Etymology

From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnjʊlə/, /ˈɪnjələ/

Noun

inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:

     In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.

2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

Translations

Further reading

• Inula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Liu'an, uinal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.nu.la/
• Rhymes: -inula
• Hyphenation: ì‧nu‧la

Noun

inula f (plural inule)

1. inula

Anagrams

• ulani

Latin

Alternative forms

• enula (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰνάω (ináō, “to purify”, literally “send forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂-, *His-neh₂-, which could be related to ἰαίνω (iaínō, “to heat, warm”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.nu.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.nu.la/,

Noun

inula f (genitive inulae); first declension

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• → English: inula
• → Italian: inula

References

• “inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἰνάω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592