orchis

See also: Orchis

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.kɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/

Noun

orchis (plural orchises or orchides or (archaic) orchisses)

1. An orchid; now specifically, a plant of the genus Orchis. [from 16th c.]
   • 1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Miss Waverly.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 195:

     [T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…]

   • 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:

     In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91:

     He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

2. (anatomy) A testis.

Derived terms

• showy orchis

 

Related terms

• orchid

Translations

orchis

• Dutch: orchis (nl) f
• Lithuanian: gegužraibė f
• Volapük: rogid

References

• “orchis” in Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary. (2012).

Anagrams

• Orcish, Schiro, chiros, choirs, ichors, orcish

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis).

Pronunciation

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Noun

orchis f (plural orchissen)

1. An orchid; a plant of the family Orchidaceae

   Synonym: orchidee

Derived terms

• bosorchis
• moerasorchis
• purperorchis
• rietorchis
• schroeforchis

 

Further reading

• orchis on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

French

Etymology

Calque of translingual Orchis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.kis/

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Noun

orchis m (plural orchis)

1. (botany) orchis (Orchis)

   Hypernym: orchidée

Derived terms

• orchis à deux feuilles
• orchis bouc
• orchis de Provence
• orchis mâle
• orchis militaire
• orchis moustique
• orchis pyramidal
• orchis singe
• orchis vanille

 

References

• “orchis” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “orchis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle, ovary, orchid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kʰis/, [ˈɔrkʰɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈor.kis/, [ˈɔrkis]

Noun

orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension

1. orchid (flower)
2. kind of olive

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	orchis	orchēs
Genitive	orchis	orchium
Dative	orchī	orchibus
Accusative	orchem	orchēs orchīs
Ablative	orche	orchibus
Vocative	orchis	orchēs

Descendants

• → English: orchis
• → Translingual: Orchis
• ⇒ New Latin: Orchideae, Orchidaceae
  • → Albanian: orkide
  • → Catalan: orquídia
  • → Czech: orchidea, orchidej
  • → English: orchid
  • → Finnish: orkidea
  • → French: orchidée
    • → German: Orchidee
      • → Dutch: orchidee
      • → Estonian: orhidee
    • → Malagasy: orkide
    • → Norwegian: orkidé
    • → Romanian: orhidee
    • → Swedish: orkidé
    • → Turkish: orkide
  • → Galician: orquídea
  • → Greek: ορχιδέα (orchidéa)
  • → Hungarian: orchidea
  • → Italian: orchidea
  • → Lithuanian: orchidėja
  • → Macedonian: орхидеја (orhideja)
  • → Polish: orchidea
  • → Portuguese: orquídea
  • → Russian: орхиде́я (orxidéja)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: орхидеја (orhideja)
  • → Slovene: orhideja
  • → Spanish: orquídea

References

• orchis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “orchis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press