cuscuta

Borrowed from Medieval Latin cuscūte, cuscūthe, cuscūta, cuscūtha, from Arabic كُشُوث (kušūṯ), from Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא / ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ (kəšūṯā), probably from כַּשָׁא / ܟܰܫܳܐ (kašā, “to pile up”) because of the jumbled fashion in which this parasitic plant climbs trees, else from Akkadian 𒃢 (SILA₄, “kasû”), a plant with many small seeds used for spice, fumigation and medicine, just like Cuscuta species.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kusˈku.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kusˈku.ta]

cuscuta f (plural cuscutes)

1. dodder (plant of genus Cuscuta)

   Synonym: cabells d'àngel

• “cuscuta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

From Medieval Latin cuscūte, cuscūthe, cuscūta, cuscūtha, from Arabic كُشُوث (kušūṯ), from Aramaic כְּשׁוּתָא / ܟܫܽܘܬܳܐ (kəšūṯā), probably from כַּשָׁא / ܟܰܫܳܐ (kašā, “to pile up”) because of the jumbled fashion in which this parasitic plant climbs trees, else from Akkadian 𒃢 (SILA₄, “kasû”), a plant with many small seeds used for spice, fumigation and medicine, just like Cuscuta species.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkus.ku.ta/
• Rhymes: -uskuta
• Hyphenation: cù‧scu‧ta

cuscuta f (plural cuscute)

1. dodder (plant of genus Cuscuta)

• IPA^(key): /kusˈkuta/ [kusˈku.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: cus‧cu‧ta

cuscuta f (plural cuscutas)

1. dodder (plant)

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