agapanto

Italian

Noun

agapanto m (plural agapanti)

African lily (of genus Agapanthus)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɡaˈpɐ̃.tu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɡaˈpɐ̃.to/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɡɐˈpɐ̃.tu/ [ɐ.ɣɐˈpɐ̃.tu]

Hyphenation: a‧ga‧pan‧to

Noun

agapanto m (plural agapantos)

agapanthus (any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants)

Spanish

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ἀγάπη (agápē, “love, affection”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /aɡaˈpanto/ [a.ɣ̞aˈpãn̪.t̪o]
Rhymes: -anto
Syllabification: a‧ga‧pan‧to

Noun

agapanto m (plural agapantos)

agapanthus (any member of the genus Agapanthus of flowering plants, especially the African lily)

Further reading

“agapanto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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