nasturtium

See also: Nasturtium

English

a nasturtium flower, Tropaeolum majus

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

nasturtian, nasturtion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English nasturcium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nasˈtɜːʃəm/, /nəsˈtɜːʃəm/
(General American) IPA^(key): /næsˈtɝʃəm/, /nəsˈtɝʃəm/

Noun

nasturtium (plural nasturtiums or nasturtia)

The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
- 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 281
  Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
A plant in this genus, Tropaeolum majus.
Any of the plants in the genus, Nasturtium, that includes watercress.

Synonyms

(Tropaeolum majus): monks cress, Indian cress

Translations

plant of the genus Tropaeolum

Armenian: հնդկոտեմ (hy) (hndkotem)
Basque: kaputxina
Belarusian: настурка f (nasturka), капуцын m (kapucyn)
Bulgarian: латинка (bg) f (latinka)
Catalan: caputxina f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 旱莲草 (zh) (hànliáncǎo)
Czech: lichořeřišnice (cs) f
Danish: tallerkensmækker
Esperanto: tropeolo
Finnish: koristekrassi (fi)
French: capucine (fr) f
German: Kapuzinerkresse (de) f
Italian: nasturzio (it) m
Japanese: 金蓮花 (kinrenka), キンレンカ (kinrenka), 凌霄葉蓮 (nōzenharen), ノウゼンハレン (nōzenharen)
Kashubian: rãplôcz m
Plautdietsch: Kjrass m
Polish: nasturcja (pl) f
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: kraska f
Spanish: capuchina (es) f
Swedish: krasse (sv) c

Tropaeolum majus — see Indian cress

plant of the genus Nasturtium

Bulgarian: пореч m (poreč), друмче n (drumče)
Finnish: vesikrassi (fi)
Middle English: nasturcium
Spanish: capuchina (es) f
Swedish: källfräne n

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Czech: řeřicha (cs)
Italian: nasturzio (it) m, cappuccina m, tropeolo m
Maori: natahama
Norman: capuchinne f
Romanian: călțunaș (ro) m
Spanish: berro (es), nasturcio

References

“nasturtium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2003.

Latin

Etymology

From nāris (“nose”) +‎ torquere (“to twist”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /naːsˈtur.ti.um/, [näːs̠ˈt̪ʊrt̪iʊ̃ˑ]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nasˈtur.t͡si.um/, [näsˈt̪urt̪͡s̪ium]

Noun

nāsturtium n (genitive nāsturtiī or nāsturtī); second declension

cress

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia
Genitive	nāsturtiī nāsturtī¹	nāsturtiōrum
Dative	nāsturtiō	nāsturtiīs
Accusative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia
Ablative	nāsturtiō	nāsturtiīs
Vocative	nāsturtium	nāsturtia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: nastorciu
  - Gallurese: nastruzzu
- Old Neapolitan: nasturçe
- Sicilian: mastrozzu
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: *mastois, *nastois
  - Middle French: nastois
  - Walloon: mastouche f
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Occitan: *nastorç
  - Occitan: nastor
    - → Piedmontese: nastór
West Iberian:
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: mastuerzo
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Galician: mestruzo, mestranzo
  - Portuguese: mastruço
- Old Spanish: mastuerço
  - Spanish: mastuerzo, nastuerzo
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian:
  - Campidanese: martuzzu
  - Logudorese: nastruttu
Borrowings:
- → Old English: nasturcium
  - >? Middle English: nasturcium, naisturcium, narstucium, narstuscium
    - English: nasturtium (archaic nasturtian, nasturtion)
- → Catalan: nasturci
- → Greek: ναστούρτιο (nastoúrtio)
- → Middle French: nasturce, nasturtion
  - French: nasturce (obsolete)
- → Middle French: naritort (calque)
  - French: nasitort
- → Italian: nasturzio
- → Old Occitan: nazitort (calque)
  - Occitan: nasitòrt
- → Polish: nasturcja
- → Spanish: nasturcio

References

“nasturtium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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