cytisus

See also: Cytisus

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κύτισος (kútisos), of unknown origin.

Noun

cytisus (plural cytisuses)

  1. Any flowering plant in the genus Cytisus.
    • 1914, John Symonds, Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete‎[1]:
      The goats eat cytisus and myrtle on the shore; a whole flock gathered round me as I sat beneath a tuft of golden green euphorbia the other day, and nibbled bread from my hands.
    • 1873, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, Liza‎[2]:
      His head leaning back on the cushions, his arms folded across his breast, Lavretsky gazed at the furrowed plains which opened fanwise before him, at the cytisus shrubs, at the crows and rooks which looked sideways at the passing carriage with dull suspicion, at the long ridges planted with mugwort, wormwood, and mountain ash.
    • 1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon‎[3]:
      The humming birds, which swarmed round the flowering cytisus and the beautiful water-fall, once more delighted the eye and the ear.

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Latin

Alternative forms

  • cytisum, citisus, citisum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κύτισος (kútisos).

Pronunciation

Noun

cytisus m (genitive cytisī); second declension

  1. a shrubby kind of clover
    • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De re rustica 9.5.6:
      Conseri deinde circa totum apiarium debent arbusculae incrementi parvi, maximeque propter salubritatem. Nam sunt etiam remedio languentibus cytisi, tum deinde casiae atque pini et rosmarinum, quin etiam cunelae et thymi frutices, item violarum vel quae utiliter deponi patitur qualitas terrae. Gravis et taetri odoris non solum virentia sed et quaelibet res prohibeantur, sic uti cancri nidor cum est ignibus adustus aut odor palustris coeni. Nec minus vitentur cavae rupes aut vallis argutiae, quas Graeci vocant echous.
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Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cytisus cytisī
genitive cytisī cytisōrum
dative cytisō cytisīs
accusative cytisum cytisōs
ablative cytisō cytisīs
vocative cytise cytisī

Descendants

  • French: cytise
  • >? Galician: codeso
  • Italian: citiso
  • Spanish: cítiso
  • Translingual: Cytisus

References

  • “cytisus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cytisus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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