thistle

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

cardo

cardone

cardo selvatico

lappola

stoppione

abrojo

sinonimi

thorn

thorny plant

Carduus

prickle

spine

sticker

thisle

prickly plant

Onopordum

large-leaved

wild cabbage

bramble

radix cirsii jeponici

brier

bristle

Traduzioni

cardo

chardon

Distel

distel

card

carduus

γαϊδουράγκαθο

Carduus

devedikeni

cardo

Onopordum acanthium

abrojo

Spanische Artischocke

Kardone

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/θɪsl̩/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: thistel

Ereditato da inglese antico: þistel

Affine inglese: stick

Affine scozzese: thrissel

Affine tedesco: Distel

Affine olandese: distel

Affine islandese: þistill

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.