cicuta

Borrowed from Latin cicūta. Apparently related to kex/kix.

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkjuːtə/

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cicuta (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:

     cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].

• Ciutac

• ceguda

Learned borrowing from Latin cicūta. Doublet of ceguda.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈku.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [siˈku.ta]

cicuta f (plural cicutes)

1. hemlock (Conium maculatum)

   Synonym: julivertassa

• “cicuta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cicuta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cicuta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin cicūta.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: ci‧cù‧ta

cicuta f (plural cicute)

1. (uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Cicuta: the Cicuta taxonomic genus
2. water hemlock, cowbane (any poisonous plant of the genus Cicuta)
3. hemlock (poison)

• cicuta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• cicuta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cicuta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• cucita

From the same substrate source as English kex, Cornish cegas, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuːt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/, [t͡ʃiˈkuːt̪ä]

cicūta f (genitive cicūtae); first declension

1. a plant, poison hemlock, probably either Conium maculatum or Cicuta virosa
2. the juice of the hemlock given to prisoners as poison
3. a pipe or flute made from the stalks or stems of the hemlock

First-declension noun.

• cicūticen

• “cicuta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cicuta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cicuta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”). Compare the inherited doublet cegude.

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant of genus Conium)

• “cicuta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from Latin cicuta (“hemlock; pipe”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈkuta/ [θiˈku.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /siˈkuta/ [siˈku.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: ci‧cu‧ta

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant)

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