name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
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Standard Lemma guide
tansy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/ˈtænzi/
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UK: /ˈtanzi/
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US: /ˈtæn.zi/
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rhymes with (US) -ænzi
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CMU ARPABET: T AE1 N Z IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
common perennial aromatic herb native to Eurasia having buttonlike yellow flower heads and bitter-tasting pinnate leaves sometimes used medicinally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: golden buttons, scented fern, Tanacetum vulgare
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: composite, composite plant
History
Etymology
From the name of the plant tansy at the end of the 19th century.
Inherited from Middle English tansy, tansey, syncopic forms of earlier tanesie, tanesei, from Old French tanesie, tanoisie, tanasie, tanaisie, from Medieval Latin tanacetum, atanacetum, attested since the 8th century, of obscure origin, speculated from Ancient Greek ἀθανασία (athanasía, “immortality”) owing to hallucinations from the thujone in the plant, else from taenia (“tapeworm”) due to its primary use against parasites by which reason it is called in Arabic حَشِيشَة الدُود (ḥašīša ad-dūd, literally “worm herb”), otherwise a Berber borrowing like tagetes.
Across languages
Translations
48 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: حَشِيشَة الدُود (ḥašīša ad-dūd) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Bulgarian: врати́га (vratíga) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Bulgarian: врати́ка (vratíka) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Catalan: tanarida — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Chinese Mandarin: 菊蒿 (júhāo) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Czech: vratič — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Danish: regnfang — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Danish: rejnfan — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Faroese: reinfann — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Finnish: pietaryrtti — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- French: tanaisie — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- French: barbotine — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- German: Rainfarn — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Hungarian: varádics — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Irish: franclus — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Irish: lus na bhfrancach — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Italian: tanaceto — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Kashubian: pòkrãtnik — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Kashubian: ksãżi kòlnérz — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Macedonian: вратига (vratiga) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Macedonian: вратика (vratika) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Middle English: tanesie — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Norman: t'naisie — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Old English: helde — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Polish: wrotycz — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Portuguese: tanaceto — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Portuguese: atanásia — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Portuguese: tanásia — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Romanian: vetrice — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Russian: пи́жма (pížma) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Samogitian: marūns — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Samogitian: čīžmos — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Samogitian: žižmars — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Samogitian: saulėis krislos — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: врàтич — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: вра̀тић — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: бу̀ха̄ч — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: vràtič — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: vràtić — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Serbo-Croatian: bùhāč — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Slovak: vratič — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Slovene: vratȉč — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Swedish: renfana — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Turkish: solucan otu — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Ottoman Turkish: صوغلجان اوتی (soğulcan otu) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Ukrainian: пи́жмо (pýžmo) — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Vietnamese: cây cúc ngài — plant of the genus Tanacetum
- Welsh: tansi — plant of the genus Tanacetum
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