nectar

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The drink of the gods.
2. (broadly, countable, uncountable) Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
3. (countable, uncountable) The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.

Verb

To feed on nectar.

Concetti

nettare

ambrosia

sinonimi

ambrosia

honey

🍯

juice

sweetness

relating

flower juice

flower water

beverage of the gods

drink

🥤

fluid

liquid

Traduzioni

Nektar

néctar

nectar

nèctar

νέκταρ

nectar

néctar

nektar

رحيق

Göttertrank

ambrosia

néctar dos deuses

ambroisie

ambrosia

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈnɛk.tə/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).