thistle

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  1. Any of several perennial composite plants, especially of genera Cirsium, Carduus, Cynara, or Onopordum, having prickly leaves and showy flower heads with prickly bracts.
  2. This plant seen as the national emblem of Scotland.
  3. An image of this plant used as a charge.
  4. The Order of the Thistle, or membership thereof.

Έννοιες

γαϊδουράγκαθο

αγκάθι

αγιάγκαθο

Συνώνυμα

thorny plant

Carduus

thisle

prickly plant

Onopordum

large-leaved

radix cirsii jeponici

Μεταφράσεις

Carduus

devedikeni

Onopordum acanthium

Spanische Artischocke

tribulus

Συχνότητα

35k
Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/θɪsl̩/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

From Middle English thistel, from Old English þistel, from Proto-West Germanic *þistil, from Proto-Germanic *þistilaz. *þīh- from *teyg-, which is a variant of Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to prick”); from this same Proto-Indo-European root comes English stick. Cognates include Scots thrissel, German Distel, Dutch distel, and Old Norse and Icelandic þistill.

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