betony

English

betony (Stachys officinalis)

Alternative forms

• vetony, bettony

Etymology

From Middle English betayny, betanie, from Medieval Latin betōnia (possibly through Old French), from Latin betōnica or ve(t)tōnica, from Vettones, a people in Lusitania. Compare French bétoine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛtəni/

Noun

betony (countable and uncountable, plural betonies)

1. Any plant of the genus Stachys.
   1. Stachys officinalis (syn. Betonica officinalis, an herb used in traditional European medicine.
2. (Canada, US) Any plant of the genus Pedicularis (louseworts).

Synonyms

• (Stachys): heal-all, self-heal, woundwort, lamb's ears, hedgenettle
• (Stachys officinalis): purple betony, bishopwort, wild hop, bishop's wort, common hedgenettle, lousewort, wood betony
• (Pedicularis): lousewort, wood betony

Translations

plant of the genus Stachys — see woundwort

Stachys officinalis

• Arabic: قَسْطَرَان m (qasṭarān)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: бу́квіца f (búkvica)
• Bulgarian: ранилист m (ranilist)
• Catalan: betònica f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 藥水蘇 / 药水苏 (yàoshuǐsū)

• Czech: bukvice (cs) f, bukvice lékařská (cs)
• Danish: lægebetonie c, læge-betonie c, lægegaltetand c
• Dutch: betonie (nl)
• Estonian: harilik tõnnike
• Finnish: rohtopähkämö
• French: bétoine (fr) f, épiaire (fr) f
• German: Betonie (de) f, Heilziest (de) m, Gliedkraut n, Ziest (de) m, Ziestkraut n
• Hungarian: tisztesfû, orvosi tisztesfû
• Italian: betonica
• Kazakh: жөтелшай (jötelşai)
• Latin: serrātula f
• Persian: بطونیکا (betunikâ)
• Polish: bukwica, bukwica zwyczajna (pl)
• Romanian: vindecea (ro) f, betonică f
• Russian: бу́квица (ru) f (búkvica)
• Serbo-Croatian: bȕkvica (sh) f
• Slovak: bukvica (sk) f, bukvica lekárska f
• Slovene: bȗkvica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: bukwica

  Upper Sorbian: bukwica

• Spanish: betónica
• Swedish: läkebetonika c, humlesuga c
• Turkish:

  Modern Turkish: kestere (tr), küstere (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كستره (kestere, küstere)

• Ukrainian: бу́квиця (uk) (búkvycja)
• Welsh: cribau San Ffraid f pl, danhogen y coed f

plant of the genus Pedicularis — see lousewort

Further reading

• betony on Wikipedia.Wikipedia