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orchis

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Etymology

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

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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.

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References

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

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

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orchis f (plural orchissen)

  1. an orchid; a plant of the family Orchidaceae
    Synonym: orchidee

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Etymology

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Calque of translingual Orchis.

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orchis m (plural orchis)

  1. (botany) orchis (Orchis)
    Hypernym: orchidée

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Latin

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Etymology

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

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orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension

  1. orchid (flower)
  2. kind of olive

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative orchis orchēs
genitive orchis orchium
dative orchī orchibus
accusative orchem orchēs
orchīs
ablative orche orchibus
vocative orchis orchēs

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References

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  • 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
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