ricinus

ricinus (countable and uncountable, plural ricinuses)

1. Ricinus communis, the castor oil plant.

   Synonym: castor oil plant

Borrowed from Latin ricinus.

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ricinus m (plural ricinussen, diminutive ricinusje n)

1. synonym of wonderboom (“castor oil plant”)

From Latin ricinus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrit͡sinuʃ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧ci‧nus

ricinus (plural ricinusok)

1. castor oil plant (Ricinus communis)

• ricinusos

• ricinus in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Unknown; possibly a substrate word. Compare Albanian ergjëz (“nit”), Lithuanian érkė (“tick”), Latvian ērce (“tick”), Proto-Slavic *ràkъ (“crayfish”), Sanskrit रिक्षा (rikṣā, “nit”) and Persian رشک (rešk, “nit”), which cannot all be derived regularly from the same Proto-Indo-European source. A pre-form *HreK-(e)r ~ *Hrek-en- is possible for the Latin assuming post-PIE thematicization, but the root would remain unidentified.

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɪ.kɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈriː.t͡ʃi.nus]

ricinus m (genitive ricinī); second declension

1. tick (arachnid)
2. castor oil plant, Ricinus (and its seeds)
3. mulberry seeds

Second-declension noun.

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