portulaca

See also: Portulaca

English

Portulaca grandiflora

Etymology

From the genus name Portulaca.

Noun

portulaca (plural portulacas)

1. (botany) Any plant in the genus Portulaca
2. (horticulture) Any of many tropical trailing herbs, of the genus Portulaca, having showy flowers

Synonyms

• purslane

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Portulaca, from Latin portulāca. Doublet of porcacchia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /por.tuˈla.ka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: por‧tu‧là‧ca

Noun

portulaca f (plural portulache)

1. purslane (any plant of the family Portulacaceae)

Further reading

• portulaca in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From portula (“little door”), from porta (“door”) + -ula (“diminutive suffix”), +‎ -āca, apparently because of the door-like opening of the seed capsule.

Noun

portulāca f (genitive portulācae); first declension

1. The purslane

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	portulāca	portulācae
Genitive	portulācae	portulācārum
Dative	portulācae	portulācīs
Accusative	portulācam	portulācās
Ablative	portulācā	portulācīs
Vocative	portulāca	portulācae

Synonyms

• porcilāca

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin portulāca. Doublet of beldroega and verdoega.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poʁ.tuˈla.kɐ/ [poh.tuˈla.kɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /poʁ.tuˈla.kɐ/ [poh.tuˈla.kɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /poɾ.tuˈla.kɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /poʁ.tuˈla.kɐ/ [poχ.tuˈla.kɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /poɻ.tuˈla.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /puɾ.tuˈla.kɐ/

• Hyphenation: por‧tu‧la‧ca

Noun

portulaca f (plural portulacas)

1. (botany) purslane (any plant of the family Portulacaceae)

   Synonym: beldroega