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6-letter words (3 found)

CROCUS,OCCURS,SUCCOR,

5-letter words (4 found)

COURS,CROCS,OCCUR,SCOUR,

4-letter words (11 found)

CORS,COUR,CROC,CRUS,CURS,ORCS,OURS,ROCS,RUCS,SCUR,SOUR,

3-letter words (13 found)

COR,COS,CRU,CUR,ORC,ORS,OUR,OUS,ROC,RUC,SOC,SOU,SUR,

2-letter words (6 found)

OR,OS,OU,SO,UR,US,

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Definitions and meaning of crocus

crocus

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹəʊ.kəs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹoʊ.kəs/
  • Rhymes: -əʊkəs

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, crocus), from an ancient Semitic language.

Noun

crocus (plural crocuses or croci or crocus or crocusses)

  1. A perennial flowering plant (of the genus Crocus in the Iridaceae family). Saffron is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus.
  2. Any of various similar flowering plants, such as the autumn crocus and prairie crocus.
  3. (inorganic chemistry, obsolete) A deep yellow powder, the oxide of some metal (especially iron), calcined to a red or deep yellow colour.
  4. (obsolete, slang) A fraudulent doctor; a quack.
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Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From croker?”)

Noun

crocus (uncountable)

  1. (Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago) Burlap.
    a crocus bag

Anagrams

  • occurs, succor

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, crocus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈkɾɔ.kus]

Noun

crocus m (invariable)

  1. crocus

Further reading

  • “crocus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “crocus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crocus, from Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, crocus).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kʁɔ.kys/

Noun

crocus m (plural crocus)

  1. crocus (plant)

Further reading

  • “crocus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • crocum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρόκος (krókos, crocus).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kus/, [ˈkrɔkʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkro.kus/, [ˈkrɔːkus]

Noun

crocus m (genitive crocī); second declension

  1. crocus, saffron

Usage notes

Most often, the masculine crocus was used to refer to the plant, while the neuter crocum was used for saffron gathered from the plant. However, this distinction is not universally observed, and the word crocus may refer either to the crocus plant or to saffron taken from the plant.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Old Occitan: gròc, gruèc
    • Catalan: groc
      • ? English: grog
      • Gallurese: grogu
      • Sardinian: grogu
      • Sassarese: grogu
    • Occitan: cròc
  • Galician: croque
  • Italian: croco
  • Catalan: crocus
  • Czech: krokus
  • Dutch: krokus
  • English: crocus
  • Finnish: krookus
  • French: crocus
  • German: Krokus
  • Icelandic: krókus
  • Norwegian: krokus
  • Polish: krokus
  • Portuguese: croco
  • Russian: кро́кус (krókus)
  • Slovene: krokus
  • Spanish: croco
  • Swedish: krokus
  • Translingual: Crocus

References

  • crocus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • crocus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crocus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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