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daffodil en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs (compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire for this rebracketing process). Doublet of asphodel.
Meanings
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Of a brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
Forms
daffodil en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Variant of Middle English affodill (“ramson”), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos), of Pre-Greek origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs (compare adder, apron, newt, nickname, orange and umpire for this rebracketing process). Doublet of asphodel.
Meanings
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(countable) A bulbous plant of the genus Narcissus, with yellow flowers and a trumpet shaped corona, especially Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the national flower of Wales.
As us fairy folk sweep from the hill
Never caught us and never will
Pulling roses and daffodils
Mayhem in the high degree.
1988, “Mayhem Maybe”, in Ian Anderson (music), 20 Years of Jethro Tull, performed by Jethro Tull:When daffadils begin to peere, / With heigh the Doxy ouer the dale, / Why then comes in the ſweet o’ the yeere, / For the red blood raigns in yͤ winters pale.
c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 290, column 1:I wandered lonely as a Cloud / That floats on high o’er Vales and Hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd / A host of dancing Daffodills; / Along the Lake, beneath the trees, / Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.
1807, William Wordsworth, “[I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, stanza 1, page 49:Was there ever a more beautiful name in the world than daffodil? Say it over to yourself, and then say “agapanthus” or “chrysanthemum,” or anything else you please, and tell me if the daffodils do not have it.
1919 November 20, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “Daffodils”, in Not That It Matters, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […], published 1920, →OCLC, page 82:
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(countable, uncountable) A brilliant yellow color, like that of a daffodil.
Where ships of purple gently toss / On seas of daffodil, / Fantastic sailors mingle, / And then—the wharf is still.
a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Where Ships of purple gently toss”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 11:
Forms
Coordinates
Lent lily (flower) · jonquil (flower) · star grass (flower) · asphodel (flower) · hippeastrum (flower)
Deriveds
winter daffodil Sternbergia lutea · daffodil telephone · paper-white daffodil · Peruvian daffodil · rush-leaved daffodil · sea daffodil · bunch-flowered daffodil · rush daffodil · wild daffodil · lily daffodil · checkered daffodil · hoop-petticoat daffodil · poet's daffodil · Malabar daffodil orchid
Relateds
daff
Translations (88)
ml ഡാഫോഡിൽ (flower) · gv lus y ghuiy (flower) · la narcissus (flower) · sv påsklilja (flower) · sq lule e verdhë (flower) · ab аҟәшәҭын (flower) · sk narcis (flower) · pl żonkil (flower) · tr nergis (flower) · eo narciso (flower) · ro narcisă (flower) · ms narcissus (flower) · ms narjis (flower) · el νάρκισσος (flower) · sh narcis (flower) · be нарцыс (flower) · kw afodil (flower) · pt narciso (flower) · mnc ᡧᡠᠰᡳ (flower) · fr jonquille (flower) · lv narcises (flower) · id narsis (flower) · ota نركس (flower) · vi thủy tiên (flower) · ga lus an chromchinn (flower) · io narciso (flower) · hu nárcisz (flower) · gd lus a' chrom-chinn (flower) · grc νάρκισσος (flower) · gl amarelle (flower) · is páskalilja (flower) · ms nargis (flower) · nrf g'zette (flower) · dsb jatšowny zwónk (flower) · ta பேரரளி (flower) · uk нарцис (flower) · mdf норзякс (flower) · fi narsissi (flower) · da påskelilje (flower) · ru нарци́сс (flower) · az nərgizgülü (flower) · sh sunovrat (flower) · ms dafodil (flower) · hy նարգիզ (flower) · hi नर्गिस (flower) · fa نرگس (flower) · bg нарци́с (flower) · ka ნარგიზი (flower) · yi נעלער נאַרציס (flower) · gl aveluria (flower) · sh нарцис (flower) · fy titelroas (flower) · gv lus yn arree (flower) · lt narcizas (flower) · es narciso (flower) · cy cenhinen Bedr (flower) · oc narcís (flower) · br roz-kamm (flower) · sw nasisa (flower) · fr narcisse (flower) · eu lilipa (flower) · ko 나팔 수선화 (flower) · nn påskelilje (flower) · kk нәркес (flower) · vo narzid (flower) · kw solz (flower) · eu nartziso (flower) · sh суноврат (flower) · hi नरगिस (flower) · et nartsiss (flower) · ja ラッパズイセン (flower) · gv lus ny n'guiy (flower) · de Osterglocke (flower) · kw lili (flower) · mk нарцис (flower) · de Narzisse (flower) · gv lus ny cam-ching (flower) · sl narcisa (flower) · ar نَرْجُس بَرِّيّ (flower) · he נרקיס (flower) · cmn 黃水仙 /黄水仙 (flower) · cs narcis (flower) · ca narcís (flower) · it narciso (flower) · mt narċis (flower) · nl narcis (flower) · nb påskelilje (flower) · gl merendeira (flower)