# anemone
## English
### Etymology

From Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē), from ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + matronymic suffix -ώνη (-ṓnē, “daughter of”).
Or from Phoenician *𐤍𐤏𐤌𐤍 (*nʿmn), akin to Arabic شَقَائِق اَلنُّعْمَان (šaqāʔiq an-nuʕmān, “anemones”) and Hebrew (Isaiah Scroll) נִטְעֵי נַעֲמָנִים (nit'ei na'amanim, “plants of pleasantness”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /əˈnɛm.ə.ni/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛməni
Often metathesized as IPA: /əˈnɛn.ə.mi/

### Noun

anemone (plural anemones)
* Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
** 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 23:Here (it was said) every year the youth Adonis was again wounded to death, and the river ran red with his blood, while the scarlet anemone bloomed among the cedars and walnuts.
** 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:Then walking slowly forward he read the letter again, murmuring here and there a word. Angry tulips with you darling manflower punish your cactus if you don’t please poor forgetmenot how I long violets to dear roses when we soon anemone meet all naughty nightstalk wife Martha’s perfume. Having read it all […]
* A sea anemone.

#### Derived terms

* ANDRILL anemone
* anemone fish
* anemonefish
* anemonin
* anemonol
* buttercup anemone
* Chinese anemone
* clown anemone
* false plum anemone
* Japanese anemone
* jewel anemone
* narcissus-flowered anemone
* rue anemone
* sea anemone
* sun anemone shrimp
* wood anemone
* yellow anemone
* yellow wood anemone
* yellow woodland anemone

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ "anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
* ↑ Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.
* ↑ Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).
* ↑ C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).

### Anagrams

* anenome

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē).

### Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)
* (botany) anemone
* (zoology) sea anemone
    Synonym: anemone de mar

#### Derived terms

* anemone alpina

### Further reading

* “anemone” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin anemōnē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈnɛ.mo.ne/
* Rhymes: -ɛmone
* Hyphenation: a‧nè‧mo‧ne

### Noun

anemone m (plural anemoni)
* anemone

#### Derived terms

* anemone di mare

### See also

* attinia

### Further reading

* anemone in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη (anemṓnē). Pliny says it was so called because the flowers opened only when the wind blew.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /a.neˈmoː.neː/, [änɛˈmoːneː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.neˈmo.ne/, [äneˈmɔːne]

### Noun

anemōnē f (genitive anemōnēs); first declension
* windflower, anemone

#### Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

#### Descendants

* English: anemone
* French: anémone
* Italian: anemone
* Norman: anémône

### References

* “anemone”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* anemone in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* “anemone”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aneˈmone/ [a.neˈmo.ne]
* Rhymes: -one
* Syllabification: a‧ne‧mo‧ne

### Noun

anemone f (plural anemones)
* Alternative form of anémona

### Further reading

* “anemone”, 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