cicuta

Borrowed from Latin cicūta.

cicuta (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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

From Latin cicūta.

cicuta f (plural cicute)

1. hemlock

• cucita

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkuː.ta/, [kɪˈkuː.ta]

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.

• 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)

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

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock