cicuta

Borrowed from Latin cicūta. Apparently related to kex/kix.

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈkjuːtə/

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cicuta (uncountable)

1. (archaic) Hemlock.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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

• ceguda

Learned borrowing from Latin cicūta. Doublet of ceguda.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [siˈku.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [siˈku.ta]

cicuta f (plural cicutes)

1. hemlock (Conium maculatum)

   Synonym: julivertassa

• “cicuta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “cicuta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cicuta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin cicūta.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈku.ta/
• Rhymes: -uta
• Hyphenation: ci‧cù‧ta

cicuta f (plural cicute)

1. (uncountable) alternative letter-case form of Cicuta: the Cicuta taxonomic genus
2. water hemlock, cowbane (any poisonous plant of the genus Cicuta)
3. hemlock (poison)

• cicuta in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
• cicuta in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• cicuta in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

• cucita

From the same substrate source as English kex, Cornish kegis, and Welsh cegid (“hemlock”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪˈkuː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈkuː.t̪a]

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 noun.

• 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)

• “cicuta”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /θiˈkuta/ [θiˈku.t̪a] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /siˈkuta/ [siˈku.t̪a] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -uta
• Syllabification: ci‧cu‧ta

cicuta f (plural cicutas)

1. hemlock (poisonous plant)

• “cicuta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024