# orchis
## English

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### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɔː.kɪs/
* (US) IPA: /ˈɔɹ.kɪs/

### Noun

orchis (plural orchises or orchides or (archaic) orchisses)
* 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.
* (anatomy) A testis.

#### Derived terms

* showy orchis

#### Related terms

* orchid

#### Translations
### References

* “orchis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* “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

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

orchis f (plural orchissen)
* 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: /ɔʁ.kis/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

orchis m (plural orchis)
* (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 Latin) IPA: /ˈor.kʰis/, [ˈɔrkʰɪs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈor.kis/, [ˈɔrkis]

### Noun

orchis f (genitive orchis); third declension
* orchid (flower)
* kind of olive

#### Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

#### 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