agrimony

English

Common Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria)

Etymology

From Middle English egremoyne, from a conflation of Old English agrimonia and Middle French agremoine (from Old French agremoine, variant of aegremone), both from Late Latin agrimōnia, metathesized from Latin argemōnia (“a kind of poppy”) (probably by association with ager, agri- (“field”)), from Ancient Greek ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “Papaver argemone, prickly poppy”), probably from ἄργεμον (árgemon, “leucoma”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.mən.i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/

Noun

agrimony (plural agrimonies)

1. Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.
   • 1620, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, The World Tossed at Tennis‎^[1], London:

     I grant, my Pils are bitter, I, and costly; / But their effects are rare, Diuine, and holsome, […] / I grant, theres bitter Egrimony in vm, / And Antimony, I put mony in all still: / And it works preciously […]

   • 1897, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Invisible Man‎^[2], New York: Pocket Books, published 1957, page 41:

     So he put the four shoes in a graceful group on the turf and looked at them. And seeing them there among the grass and springing agrimony, it suddenly occurred to him that both pairs were exceedingly ugly to see.

2. Any of several not closely related plants of a similar appearance.

Hyponyms

• hemp-agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum)

Derived terms

• bastard agrimony

Translations

plant of the genus Agrimonia

• Afrikaans: akkermonie f
• Albanian: rodhëz f
• Arabic: غَافِث m (ḡāfiṯ)
• Armenian: երեսնակ (hy) (eresnak), անիծած ծաղիկ (anicac caġik)
• Bulgarian: камши́к (bg) m (kamšík)
• Catalan: agrimònia f
• Czech: řepík m
• Dutch: agrimonie (nl)
• Esperanto: agrimonio
• Finnish: verijuuri (fi)
• French: aigremoine (fr) f
• German: Odermennig (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὐπατόριον n (eupatórion)

• Ido: agrimonio (io)
• Irish: airgeadán m, marbhdhraighean m
• Italian: agrimonia f
• Kazakh: ошаған (oşağan)
• Macedonian: камшик m (kamšik), петровец m (petrovec)
• Old English: garclife
• Old French: aegremone f
• Ottoman Turkish: قویون اوتی (koyun otu), قزل یپراق (kızıl yaprak), قاصق اوتی (kasık otu)
• Persian: غافث (fa) (ğâfes, ğâfas), جگردارو (jegardâru)
• Polish: rzepik m, jabłecznik (pl) m (uncommon)
• Portuguese: agrimónia f (Portugal), agrimônia (pt) f (Brazil)
• Romanian: turiță-mare (ro) f
• Russian: репешо́к (ru) m (repešók)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пѐтровац m, ту̏рица f

  Latin: pètrovac (sh) m, tȕrica (sh) f

• Slovak: repík m
• Slovene: repik m, toríca f, gladišnik m (uncommon), menik m (archaic)
• Spanish: agrimonia (es) f
• Swedish: småborre c
• Turkish: kızıl yaprak, kızılyaprak (tr), kasık otu (tr), kasıkotu, koyun otu (tr), koyunotu
• Welsh: blaen y conyn ar y mêl m

Anagrams

• myriagon