Anemone

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /əˈnÉ›m.É™.ni/
• Rhymes: -É›mÉ™ni

Origin

Latin anemōnē, from Ancient Greek ἀνεμώνη, from ἄνεμος (ánemos, "wind") + feminine patronymic suffix -ώνη (ōnē, "daughter of the wind").

"anemone". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.

Or from Phoenician *naxmon, akin to Arabic شقائق النعمان (shaqaa’iq al-no3maan, "anemones") and Hebrew (Isiah Scroll) nit'y na'amanim 'plants of pleasantness', from na'em 'was pleasant'.

Edward Yechezkel Kutscher, The Language and Linguistic Background of the Isiah Scroll (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 1974), 380; first published in Hebrew, in Jerusalem, 1959.

Babcock, Philip, ed., Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged, s.v. "anemone" (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webser, 1993).

C.T. Onions, The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, s.v. "anemone" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Full definition of anemone

Noun

1. Any plant of the genus Anemone, of the Ranunculaceae (or buttercup) family, such as the windflower.
2. A sea anemone.

Derived terms

• anemonefish