Translingual

Adonis annua

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις ‎(Ádōnis)

Proper noun

Adonis f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – pheasant's eye or blood drops.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Ranunculales - order; Ranunculaceae - family; Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Adonideae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Adonis annua - type species; Adonis aestivalis, Adonis aleppica, Adonis amurensis, Adonis bienertii, Adonis bobroviana, Adonis brevistyla, Adonis chrysocyathus, Adonis coerulea, Adonis cyllenea, Adonis davidii, Adonis dentata, Adonis distorta, Adonis eriocalycina, Adonis flammea, Adonis flammula, Adonis globosa, Adonis integra, Adonis leiosepala, Adonis microcarpa, Adonis mongolica, Adonis multiflora, Adonis nepalensis, Adonis palaestina, Adonis parviflora, Adonis persica, Adonis pyrenaica, Adonis ramosa, Adonis scrobiculata, Adonis shikokuensis, Adonis sibirica, Adonis sibthorpii, Adonis sutchuenensis, Adonis tianschanica, Adonis turkestanica, Adonis vernalis, Adonis villosa, Adonis wolgensis (other species)

English

Proper noun

Adonis

1. (Greek mythology) A beautiful young man loved by Aphrodite.
   • 1866, Sabine Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: S. George,

     The Phœnician Adonis was identical with Tammūz.

   • 1900, James Frazer, The Golden Bough, Chapter 42: Osiris and the Sun,

     A strong reason for interpreting the death of Osiris as the decay of vegetation rather than as the sunset is to be found in the general, though not unanimous, voice of antiquity, which classed together the worship and myths of Osiris, Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and Demeter, as religions of essentially the same type. The consensus of ancient opinion on this subject seems too great to be rejected as a mere fancy. So closely did the rites of Osiris resemble those of Adonis at Byblus that some of the people of Byblus themselves maintained that it was Osiris and not Adonis whose death was mourned by them.

   • 1921, Jessie Weston, From Ritual to Romance, Chapter X: The Secret of the Grail (1) - The Mysteries,

     As Sir J. G. Frazer has before now pointed out, there are parallel and over-lapping forms of this cult, the name of the god, and certain details of the ritual, may differ in different countries, but whether he hails from Babylon, Phrygia, or Phoenicia, whether he be called Tammuz, Attis, or Adonis, the main lines of the story are fixed, and invariable. Always he is young and beautiful, always the beloved of a great goddess; always he is the victim of a tragic and untimely death, a death which entails bitter loss and misfortune upon a mourning world, and which, for the salvation of that world, is followed by a resurrection.

2. (rare) A male given name

Translations

Noun

Adonis ‎(plural Adonises or Adonides)

1. A beautiful man.

Translations

Anagrams

• sodian

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /âdonis/
• Hyphenation: A‧do‧nis

Proper noun

Ȁdonis m ‎(Cyrillic spelling А̏донис)

1. (Greek mythology) Adonis

References

• “Adonis” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Finnish

Noun

adonis

1. Adonis (beautiful man)

Declension

Anagrams

• sadoin