# cicuta
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicūta. Apparently related to kex/kix.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sɪˈkjuːtə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

cicuta (uncountable)
* (archaic) Hemlock.
** 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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 […].

### Anagrams

* Ciutac

## Catalan
### Alternative forms

* ceguda

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cicūta. Doublet of ceguda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [siˈku.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [siˈku.ta]

### Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutes)
* hemlock (Conium maculatum)
    Synonym: julivertassa

### Further reading

* “cicuta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “cicuta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “cicuta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “cicuta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicūta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/
* Rhymes: -uta
* Hyphenation: ci‧cù‧ta

### Noun

cicuta f (plural cicute)
* (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Cicuta: the Cicuta taxonomic genus
* water hemlock, cowbane (any poisonous plant of the genus Cicuta)
* hemlock (poison)

#### Derived terms

* cicuta acquatica
* cicuta aglina
* cicuta di Socrate
* cicuta maggiore
* cicuta minore
* cicuta rossa

### Further reading

* cicuta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
* cicuta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
* cicuta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

### Anagrams

* cucita

## Latin
### Etymology

From the same substrate source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuːt̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/, [t͡ʃiˈkuːt̪ä]

### 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

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* cicūticen

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: cucutã
** Romanian: cucută
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: cicuta
** Sicilian: cicuta
* North-Italian:
** Piedmontese: sùa
* Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: acecuta
** Catalan: ceguda
** Gascon: cecuta, ciguda, ceguda
** Old French: cëue, cegue
*** French: ciguë, (dialectal) çue, ceüe
** Occitan: ciguda
    Vivaro-Alpine: cigüa
** Norman: chue, cheüe
* Ibero-Romance:
** Galician: cegude, cigude
** Portuguese: cegude, cigude
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: kukutë
** → Andalusian Arabic: جقوطة (čuqūṭa, čaqūṭa)
** → Catalan: cicuta
** → Galician: cicuta
** → Greek: κικούτα (kikoúta), κιρκούτα (kirkoúta)
** → Portuguese: cicuta
** → Russian: цику́та (cikúta)
** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: ку̀кута
    Latin script: kùkuta
** → Spanish: cicuta
** → Translingual: Cicuta

### 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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”). Compare the inherited doublet cegude.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /siˈku.tɐ/

### Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)
* hemlock (poisonous plant of genus Conium)

### Further reading

* “cicuta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Spain) /θiˈkuta/ [θiˈku.t̪a]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈkuta/ [siˈku.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -uta
* Syllabification: ci‧cu‧ta

### Noun

cicuta f (plural cicutas)
* hemlock (poisonous plant)

### Further reading

* “cicuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10