nigella

See also: Nigella

English

Nigella

Etymology

From Scientific Latin, from Late Latin nigella. Doublet of nielle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɪˈd͡ʒɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

nigella (countable and uncountable, plural nigellas)

1. Any plant of the genus Nigella of about twelve species of annual flowering plants, the blooms of which are generally blue in colour but also found in shades of pink, white and pale purple.
2. The seeds of the plant Nigella sativa, used as a culinary spice.

Synonyms

Nigella seed

• (flower): love-in-a-mist
• (spice): black onion seed, onion seed, kalonji

Derived terms

• nigelline
• nigellone

Translations

plant of the genus Nigella

• Arabic: شُونِيز m (šūnīz)
• Armenian: սոնիճ (hy) (sonič)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: чарнушка f (čarnuška)
• Bulgarian: челебитка f (čelebitka), че́рен кимио́н m (čéren kimión), че́рен суса́м m (čéren susám)
• Czech: černucha f
• Estonian: mustköömen
• Finnish: neito (fi)
• French: nigelle (fr) f
• Galician: mourillón m
• German: Schwarzkümmel (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: μελάνθιον n (melánthion)

• Hungarian: kandilla, katicavirág (hu)
• Latvian: melnsēklīte
• Lithuanian: juodgrūdė
• Polish: czarnuszka (pl) f
• Romanian: chica-voinicului (ro) f
• Russian: черну́шка (ru) f (černúška), черну́ха (ru) f (černúxa), калинджи (ru) m (kalindži), чёрный тмин m (čórnyj tmin)
• Serbo-Croatian: cr̀njika f (Croatia, Bosnia, used in Serbia in the form cr̀nika for the holm oak), mačkov bȓk m (Serbia), crno sȅme n (Serbia), cȓnī kùmīn m (Serbia), cȓnī kȉm (Serbia, Bosnia), crni sùsam (Serbia)
• Slovak: černuška f
• Slovene: črníka (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: čornucha f

• Spanish: ajenuz (es), arañuela f
• Swedish: nigella c
• Turkish: çörekotu (tr), çöreotu, siyah kimyon, siyah susam
• Ukrainian: чорну́шка f (čornúška), чо́рний кмин m (čórnyj kmyn)

spice — see black caraway

Further reading

• nigella on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nigella on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:nigella on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Gallien, Langlie, gallein, galline, liangle

Italian

Etymology

From Scientific Latin, from Late Latin nigella, from the feminine of Latin nigellus. Cf. also niello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niˈd͡ʒɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: ni‧gèl‧la

Noun

nigella f (plural nigelle)

1. nigella

Anagrams

• agnelli, galline, gellani

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niˈɡel.la/, [nɪˈɡɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /niˈd͡ʒel.la/, [niˈd͡ʒɛlːä]

Etymology 1

Substantivization of the feminine of nigellus (“blackish”). Attested ca. 400 CE.

Noun

nigella f (genitive nigellae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. Nigella sativa (plant)

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • ⇒? Romanian: neghină
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: gnèla, agnela
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: gnalla
  • Old French: neele, noiele, noele, nielle
    • French: nielle
    • Norman: nelle, nêle
    • Poitevin-Saintongeais: gnelle, ignelle
    • Picard: noyelle
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: niella
  • Occitan: nièla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Spanish: *neiella ⇒ neguiella (/ɡ/ taken from negro)
    • Spanish: neguilla

      Salamanca: nilla

• Borrowings:
  • → English: nigella
  • → French: nigelle
  • → Italian: nigella
  • → Portuguese: nigela

Etymology 2

Adjective

nigella

1. inflection of nigellus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

nigellā

1. ablative feminine singular of nigellus