cyclamen

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Borrowing from New Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclamīnos.

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cyclamen (plural cyclamens)

2. Any of various primulaceous flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.

   Synonym: sowbread

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:

     An expectant mother would avoid cyclamen, stepping over it being an ominous sign.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 72:

     The root of the cyclamen, sowbread, was used in ancient times as an ingredient in love potions.

   • 1973, Patrick Millington Synge, In search of flowers:

     An interesting cyclamen was also found here with dark rounded unmarbled leaves, but unfortunately without flowers […]

3. A purplish-red colour.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.

• → Japanese: シクラメン (shikuramen)
• → Korean: 시클라멘 (sikeullamen)
• → Chinese: 仙客來 / 仙客来 (xiānkèlái)

• cycleman

From Latin cyclamen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.klaː.mɛn/

cyclamen n (plural cyclamens)

1. (botany) synonym of cyclaam

• This form is mostly used in technical contexts, cyclaam being the more standard choice.

• cyclaam (back-formation)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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cyclamen

1. plural of cyclaam

cyclamen m (plural cyclamens)

1. cyclamen

• “cyclamen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈky.kɫa.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiː.kla.men]

cyclamen n (genitive cyclaminis); third declension

1. alternative form of cyclamīnos

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• cyclămĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 460/3.