Verticordia

See also: verticordia

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin verto cor, "turner of hearts" by the botanist A. P. de Candolle.

Proper noun

Verticordia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Myrtaceae – feather flowers or verticordias.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids – clades; Myrtales – order; Myrtaceae – family; Myrtoideae – subfamily; Chamelaucieae – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Verticordia brownii (pink brownii); for other species see Verticordia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Descendants

• → English: verticordia
• → Russian: вертико́рдия (vertikórdija)

References

• Verticordia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Verticordia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Verticordia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-etor

Proto-Indo-European *wértetor

Proto-Italic *wertō

Latin verto

Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd-

Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr ~ *ḱr̥dés

Proto-Italic *kord

Latin cor

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin Verticordia

From verto (“turn”) +‎ cor (“heart”) +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɛr.tɪˈkɔr.di.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ver.tiˈkɔr.di.a]

Noun

Verticordia f sg (genitive Verticordiae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) epithet of Venus
   • 14 CE – 37 CE, Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium 8.15.12:

     quae, cum senatus libris Sibyllinis per decemuiros inspectis censuisset ut Veneris Verticordiae simulacrum consecraretur, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Verticordia
genitive	Verticordiae
dative	Verticordiae
accusative	Verticordiam
ablative	Verticordiā
vocative	Verticordia

Further reading

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