narcissus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin narcissus, from Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos), ultimately either from Pre-Greek or related to νάρκη (nárkē). === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/ Rhymes: -ɪsəs === Noun === narcissus (plural narcissuses or narcissi) Any of several bulbous flowering plants, of the genus Narcissus, having white or yellow cup- or trumpet-shaped flowers, notably the daffodil A beautiful young man, like the mythological Greek Narcissus ==== Derived terms ==== narcissus-flowered anemone ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek νάρκισσος (nárkissos). === Noun === narcissus m (genitive narcissī); second declension narcissus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “narcissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “narcissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "narcissus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “narcissus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2] “narcissus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “narcissus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray