paulownia
English edit
Etymology edit
From New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, transliterating Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
Noun edit
paulownia (plural paulownias)
- Any member of the genus Paulownia, comprising deciduous flowering trees native to Asia.
- 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 62:
- “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”
French edit
Noun edit
paulownia m (plural paulownias)
Further reading edit
- “paulownia”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin paulownia, from German Pawlowna, from Russian Па́вловна (Pávlovna), the patronymic of Anna Pavlovna.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paulownia f
Declension edit
Declension of paulownia
singular | plural | |
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nominative | paulownia | paulownie |
genitive | paulowni | paulowni |
dative | paulowni | paulowniom |
accusative | paulownię | paulownie |
instrumental | paulownią | paulowniami |
locative | paulowni | paulowniach |
vocative | paulownio | paulownie |
Further reading edit
- paulownia in Polish dictionaries at PWN