cicuta
See also: Cicuta
English
Noun
cicuta (uncountable)
- (archaic) Hemlock.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:
- cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].
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Latin
Etymology
From the same Proto-Indo-European source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuː.ta]
Noun
cicūta f (genitive cicūtae); first declension
- a plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa
- the juice of the hemlock given to prisoners as poison
- a pipe or flute made from the stalks or stems of the hemlock
Inflection
First declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cicūta | cicūtae |
Genitive | cicūtae | cicūtārum |
Dative | cicūtae | cicūtīs |
Accusative | cicūtam | cicūtās |
Ablative | cicūtā | cicūtīs |
Vocative | cicūta | cicūtae |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cicuta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicuta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Siegfried, Miscellanea Celtica, p. 32
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