EuroLex/E/Gardenia


 * Original language: English/Neo-Latin (with Latin ending -ia)
 * Original form and meaning: 'a shrub with large white or yellow flowers and a fragrant scent', named after the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden (died 1791) [source: DEA*/CODEE**]

(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)

This word has largely lost his "Englishness" due to the neo-Latin ending and the pronunciations according to national conventions.
 * Annotations: *DEA = Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach (2001), Oxford: OUP.; **CODEE = Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology by T.F. Hoad (1986), Oxford: Clarendon.


 * Information on Other Languages: Icelandic: gardenía [kartenija], 1940s, via Danish; meaning: see above; status: fully accepted but still marked as English; Romanian: gardenie [pronunciation like spelling suggests], beg20c, via French; meaning: see above; status: not (or no longer) recognized as English; Russian: gardeniya [stress on second syllable], beg20c; meaning: see above; status: restricted use: technical; Bulgarian: gardeniya [stress on second syllable], beg20c, not (or no longer) recognized as English, but restricted to technical use; Greek: ghardhenia [stress on second syllable], date of borrowing: ?; meaning: see above; status: not (or no longer) recognized as English.

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