geranium

From Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γερᾰ́νῐον (geránion), from γέρᾰνος (géranos, “crane”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

• IPA^(key): /dʒəˈɹeɪni.əm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

geranium (plural geraniums or gerania)

1. Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium of cranesbills, of family Geraniaceae.
2. The common name for flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium.
3. A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium.

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• (Geranium): cranesbill
• (Pelargonium): pelargonium

• geraniol

• alfilaria
• storksbill
• geranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pelargonium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Geranium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pelargonium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

geranium (comparative more geranium, superlative most geranium)

1. Of a bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium.

• (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermilion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine ^{(Category: en:Reds)}

Borrowed from New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos, “crane”); more at ooievaarsbek.

• IPA^(key): /ɣəˈraː.ni.ʏm/
• Hyphenation: ge‧ra‧ni‧um

geranium f (plural geraniums, diminutive geraniumpje n)

1. a geranium, plant of the genus Geranium

   Synonym: ooievaarsbek

2. (informal) a pelargonium

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡeˈra.ni.um/, [ɡɛˈräniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeˈra.ni.um/, [d͡ʒeˈräːnium]

geranium n (genitive geraniī or geranī); second declension

1. Latinized spelling of geranion

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• → English: geranium
• → Translingual: Geranium

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

From New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos, “crane”).

geranium m (definite singular geranien or geraniumen, indefinite plural geranier, definite plural geraniene)

1. a geranium, plant of genus Geranium
2. a pelargonium (popular name)

• storkenebb

• pelargonia

• “geranium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “geranium” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos).

geranium m (definite singular geraniumen, indefinite plural geraniumar, definite plural geraniumane)

1. a geranium, plant of genus Geranium
2. a pelargonium (popular name)

• storkenebb

• pelargonia

• “geranium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from New Latin geranium, from Ancient Greek γέρανος (géranos).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɛˈraɲ.jum/
• Rhymes: -aɲjum
• Syllabification: ge‧ran‧ium

geranium n

1. geranium, cranesbill (any flowering plant of the genus Geranium)

   Synonyms: bodziszek, gerania

2. a popular name of some species of pelargonium

• geranium in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• geranium in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French géranium.

geranium n (uncountable)

1. geranium