different between jonquil vs narcissus

English

Alternative forms

• jonquille

Etymology

Borrowed from French jonquille, itself a borrowing from Spanish junquillo.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d???kw?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???kw?l/

Noun

jonquil (plural jonquils)

1. (botany) A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil. [from 1660s]
2. A shade of yellow. [from late 18th c.]

Translations

Further reading

• Narcissus jonquilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Narcissus jonquilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to ????? (nárk?).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n???s?s?s/
• Rhymes: -?s?s

Noun

narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi)

Wikispecies

1. Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil
2. A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (nárkissos).

Noun

narcissus m (genitive narciss?); second declension

1. narcissus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

References

• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• narcissus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• narcissus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• narcissus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• narcissus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray