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Gladiolus imbricatus (2)

Learned borrowing from Latin gladiolus (“little sword, sword lily”), diminutive of gladius (“sword”).[1] Compare Middle English gladiol, whence gladiole.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡlædɪˈəʊləs/
• (US) IPA(key): /ɡlædɪˈoʊləs/
• Rhymes: -əʊləs

gladiolus (plural gladioli or gladioluses)

1. (anatomy) The center part of the sternum.
2. Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and showy flowers on spikes; gladiola.
   Synonym: sword lily
   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
     Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.

• gladiola, gladiole

• gladdie

• Gladiola

• gladiolin

• gladiator

center part of the sternum

plant

• Armenian: թրաշուշան (hy) (tʻrašušan)
• Belarusian: гладыёлус m (hladyjólus)
• Bulgarian: гладиола f (gladiola)
• Catalan: gladiol m
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 劍蘭 / 剑兰 (jiànlán)
• Czech: mečík m
• Dutch: gladiool (nl) m or f, zwaardlelie (nl) f
• Finnish: miekkalilja (fi)
• French: glaïeul (fr) m
• German: Gladiole (de) f
• Greek: γλαδιόλα (el) f (gladióla), γλαδίολος (el) m (gladíolos)
  Ancient Greek: μαχαιρόφυλλον n (makhairóphullon), ξίφιον n (xíphion)
• Hungarian: kardvirág (hu)
• Hunsrik: Santeritte f
• Italian: gladiolo (it) m
• Japanese: グラジオラス (ja) (gurajiorasu)
• Latin: gladiolus m
• Macedonian: гладио́ла f (gladióla)
• Naga:
  Khiamniungan Naga: vēukōi tāupūo
• Polish: mieczyk (pl) m, gladiola (pl) f
• Portuguese: gladíolo (pt) m
• Romanian: gladiolă (ro) f
• Russian: гладио́лус (ru) m (gladiólus), шпа́жник (ru) m (špážnik)
• Spanish: estoque (es) m, gladiolo (es) m, gladíolo m
• Swedish: gladiolus c
• Ukrainian: гладіо́лус m (hladiólus), коса́рик m (kosáryk)
• Vietnamese: lay ơn (vi)

1. ^ “gladiolus, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Borrowed from Latin gladiolus, a diminutive form of gladius (“sword”).

• IPA(key): /ˌɣlaː.diˈoː.lʏs/
• Hyphenation: gla‧di‧o‧lus

gladiolus m (plural gladioli, no diminutive)

1. dated form of gladiool (“gladiolus, gladiola”)

Latin gladiolus

• IPA(key): /ˈɡlɑdiolus/, [ˈɡlɑ̝diˌo̞lus̠]
• Rhymes: -olus
• Syllabification(key): gla‧di‧o‧lus
• Hyphenation(key): gla‧dio‧lus

gladiolus

1. synonym of miekkailija (“gladiolus (plant)”)

Diminutive of gladius (“sword”) +‎ -olus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɡɫaˈdi.ɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ɡlaˈdiː.o.lus]

gladiolus m (genitive gladiolī); second declension

1. Little sword, knife
2. Sword lily, gladiolus.

Second-declension noun.

• Catalan: garitjol

• French: glaïeul

• Occitan: glaujòl

• Old Italian: ghiaggiuolo, giaggiuolo

  • Italian: giaggiolo

• Borrowings:

  • → Catalan: gladiol
  • → English: gladiolus
  • → German: Gladiole
    * → Romanian: gladiolă
  • → Italian: gladiolo
  • → Norwegian: gladiolus

• “gladiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Latin gladiolus (“little sword, sword lily”), diminutive of gladius (“sword”).

gladiolus m (definite singular gladiolusen, indefinite plural gladioler or gladioluser, definite plural gladiolene or gladiolusene)

1. a gladiolus (flowering plant of genus Gladiolus)

• “gladiolus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin gladiolus (“little sword, sword lily”), diminutive of gladius (“sword”).

gladiolus m (definite singular gladiolusen, indefinite plural gladiolar or gladiolusar, definite plural gladiolane or gladiolusane)

1. a gladiolus (flowering plant of genus Gladiolus)

• “gladiolus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.