finocchio
Italian (Fiorentino)
noun
Definitions
- (botany) fennel
- (slang) queer, poof, nancyboy, faggot
- (archaic) bungler incompetent or worthless person
Etymology
Inherited from Latin fēnuculum (fennel), fēnum (hay).
Origin
Latin
fēnum
Gloss
hay
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- dogfennel English
- fennel English
- fennelflower English
- finocchio English
- *fenuclum Latin
- *fenunclu Latin
- *fēnuclum Latin
- faeniculum Latin
- fēniculum Latin
- fēnuculum Latin
- fēnum Latin
- Fenchel German
- finocchiaccio Italian
- finocchiella Italian
- infinocchiare Italian
- heno Spanish, Castilian
- *dʰeh₁(y)-no- Proto-Indo-European
- fenel Middle English
- fenkel Middle English
- fenoil Old French
- feal Galician
- fiollo Galician
- fionllo Galician
- afâna Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- fân Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- φινόκιο Greek (modern)
- venkel Middle Dutch
- finok Albanian
- *fionllo Old Portuguese
- fenolh Occitan
- fanucio Istriot
- fnoj Piedmontese
- fe Old Catalan