ranunculus
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Ranunculus repens
rānunculī (tadpoles)
See also: Ranunculus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Ranunculus, from Latin rānunculus.
Noun
ranunculus (plural ranunculuses or ranunculi)
- Any plant of the genus Ranunculus; the buttercup or crowfoot.
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
buttercup — see buttercup
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin rānunculus.
Pronunciation
Noun
ranunculus (rare)
- (botany) ranunculus (plant of the genus Ranunculus)
Declension
| Inflection of ranunculus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ranunculus | ranunculukset | |
| genitive | ranunculuksen | ranunculusten ranunculuksien | |
| partitive | ranunculusta | ranunculuksia | |
| illative | ranunculukseen | ranunculuksiin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ranunculus | ranunculukset | |
| accusative | nom. | ranunculus | ranunculukset |
| gen. | ranunculuksen | ||
| genitive | ranunculuksen | ranunculusten ranunculuksien | |
| partitive | ranunculusta | ranunculuksia | |
| inessive | ranunculuksessa | ranunculuksissa | |
| elative | ranunculuksesta | ranunculuksista | |
| illative | ranunculukseen | ranunculuksiin | |
| adessive | ranunculuksella | ranunculuksilla | |
| ablative | ranunculukselta | ranunculuksilta | |
| allative | ranunculukselle | ranunculuksille | |
| essive | ranunculuksena | ranunculuksina | |
| translative | ranunculukseksi | ranunculuksiksi | |
| abessive | ranunculuksetta | ranunculuksitta | |
| instructive | — | ranunculuksin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Synonyms
Latin
Etymology
From rāna (“frog”) + -unculus (diminutive suffix). An irregularly formed diminutive in several ways: the ending -unculus was rarely used as a suffix, more often appearing when the diminutive suffix -culus is added to a stem ending in /n/, and the gender of a Latin diminutive usually is the same as that of the base word, but in this case changes from feminine to masculine. See also rānula, another diminutive from rāna.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /raːˈnun.ku.lus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /raˈnun.ku.lus/,
Noun
rānunculus m (genitive rānunculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | rānunculus | rānunculī |
| genitive | rānunculī | rānunculōrum |
| dative | rānunculō | rānunculīs |
| accusative | rānunculum | rānunculōs |
| ablative | rānunculō | rānunculīs |
| vocative | rānuncule | rānunculī |
Related terms
Descendants
- → Catalan: ranuncle (learned)
- → Dutch: ranonkel (learned)
- → English: ranunculus (learned)
- → French: renoncule (learned)
- → Galician: ranúnculo (learned)
- → Italian: ranuncolo (learned)
- → Portuguese: ranúnculo (learned)
- Sicilian: ranunchiu, larunchiu
- Spanish: renacuajo, → ranúnculo (learned)
- → Translingual: Ranunculus (learned)
References
- “ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ranunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ranunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.