periwinkle

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Diminutive of Middle English perwinke, from Old English perfince, perwince (compare Middle High German berwinke), from Latin pervinca (compare French pervenche, Italian pervinca).

From Middle English [Term?], alteration of *pinewinkle (compare English dialectal pennywinkle), from Old English pīnewincle, compound of Latin pīna (“kind of mussel”), itself from Ancient Greek πίνη (pínē), variant of πίννα (pínna, “mussel”)) and Old English wincel (“corner”) (compare dialectal Danish vinkel (“snail shell”)). More at winch and wink.

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Hungarian: babakék — colour
• Ido: pervinkea — colour
• Italian: pervinca — colour
• Polish: barwinkowy — colour
• Belarusian: барве́нак (barvjénak) — plant
• Bulgarian: зимзелен (zimzelen) — plant
• Catalan: vinca — plant
• Catalan: pervinca — plant
• Chinese Mandarin: 蔓長春花 /蔓长春花 (mànchángchūnhuā) — plant
• Czech: barvínek — plant
• Czech: brčál — plant
• Esperanto: vinko — plant
• Finnish: talvio — plant
• French: pervenche — plant
• Galician: cangroia — plant
• German: Immergrün — plant
• German: Singrün — plant
• Ancient Greek: χαμαιδάφνη (khamaidáphnē) — plant
• Hebrew: וינקה (vínka) — plant
• Hungarian: meténg — plant
• Ido: pervinko — plant
• Irish: fincín — plant
• Irish: bláth na faochan — plant
• Italian: pervinca — plant
• Japanese: ツルニチニチソウ (tsurunichinisō) — plant
• Japanese: ニチニチソウ (nichinichisō) — plant
• Kazakh: қабыршөп (qabyrşöp) — plant
• Latin: pervinca — plant
• Norman: bliuette — plant
• Norman: pèrvenche — plant
• Polish: barwinek — plant
• Portuguese: pervinca — plant
• Romanian: saschiu — plant
• Romanian: pervincă — plant
• Russian: барви́нок (barvínok) — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: зи̏мзеле̄н — plant
• Serbo-Croatian: zȉmzelēn — plant
• Slovene: zimzelen — plant
• Spanish: vinca — plant
• Turkish: Cezayir menekşesi — plant
• Ukrainian: барві́нок (barvínok) — plant
• Vietnamese: dừa cạn — plant
• Welsh: perfagl — plant
• French: pervenche — colour
• Italian: pervinca — colour
• Polish: kolor barwinkowy — colour
• Asturian: bígaru — mollusc
• Asturian: mincha — mollusc
• Breton: bigorn — mollusc
• Chinese Mandarin: 濱螺 /滨螺 (bīnluó) — mollusc
• Czech: plážovka — mollusc
• Dutch: alikruik — mollusc
• Finnish: rantakotilo — mollusc
• French: bigorneau — mollusc
• French: vigneau — mollusc
• French: vignot — mollusc
• Galician: bígaro — mollusc
• Galician: caramuxo — mollusc
• Galician: mincha — mollusc
• German: Uferschnecke — mollusc
• Hungarian: meténg — mollusc
• Irish: faocha — mollusc
• Irish: gioradán — mollusc
• Irish: miongán — mollusc
• Italian: litorina — mollusc
• Italian: littorale — mollusc
• Japanese: タマキビガイ (tamakibigai) — mollusc
• Māori: ngaeti — mollusc
• Māori: mākerekere — mollusc
• Māori: matatangata — mollusc
• Māori: mātangata — mollusc
• Māori: ataata — mollusc
• Norman: v'licot — mollusc
• Polish: pobrzeżka — mollusc
• Portuguese: litorina — mollusc
• Romanian: litorină — mollusc
• Russian: литори́на (litorína) — mollusc
• Spanish: bigarro — mollusc
• Spanish: bígaro — mollusc
• Woiwurrung: pid-de-ron — mollusc