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beladona

beladona

Portuguese

Noun

beladona f (plural beladonas)

belladonna, deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Italian belladonna ‎(bella donna, literally “beautiful lady”), altered by folk etymology from Medieval Latin bladona ‎(“nightshade”), from Gaulish *blātōnā, blātunā, from Proto-Celtic *blātus ‎(“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃tus, from *bʰleh₃- ‎(“blossom, flower”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /beladǒːna/
Hyphenation: be‧la‧do‧na

Noun

beladóna f ‎(Cyrillic spelling беладо́на)

belladonna, deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)

Synonyms

velebilje

Etymology

Italian belladonna ‎(bella donna, literally “beautiful lady”), altered by folk etymology from Medieval Latin bladona ‎(“nightshade”), from Gaulish *blātōnā, blātunā, from Proto-Celtic *blātus ‎(“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃tus, from *bʰleh₃- ‎(“blossom, flower”). The folk etymology was motivated by the cosmetic use of nightshade for dilating the eyes.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛ.lɐˈdo.nɐ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌbɛ.laˈdo.na/