daffodil

• n. スイセン
• adj.水仙色
• n. （水仙の）人名；（英国の）水仙

ラテン語のasphodelus、黄色い水仙から。dは冠詞のdeと勘違いして頭文字の前に付けられた。

daffodil

daffodil: [16] Originally, this word was affodil, and referred to a plant of the lily family, the asphodel; it came from medieval Latin affodillus, and the reason for the change from asph- (or asf-, as it often was in medieval texts) to aff- is probably that the s in medieval manuscripts looked very like an f. The first evidence of its use to refer to a ‘daffodil’, rather than an ‘asphodel’, comes in the middle of the 16th century. It is not entirely clear where the initial d came from, but the likeliest explanation is that daffodil represents Dutch de affodil ‘the daffodil’ (the Dutch were then as now leading exponents of bulb cultivation).

daffodil (n.)

1540s, variant of Middle English affodill "asphodel" (c. 1400), from Medieval Latin affodillus, from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos, which is of unknown origin. The initial d- is perhaps from merging of the article in Dutch de affodil, the Netherlands being a source for bulbs. First reference to the flower we know by this name (Narcissus pseudo-Narcissus) is from 1590s.

1. The daffodil belongs to the genus Narcissus.

黄水仙は水仙属の植物である。

2.Perennial border such as daffodil 、daisy、lily、phlox、iris、etc.

多年生植物（水仙、デイジー、ユリ、福禄考、蝶の花など）を植えるストリップ緑化帯。

3.The flower was something in the mature of a daffodil .

この花は水仙に似ている。

4.I was right.On top of a daffodil ，sat a bee.

は確かに虫で、私は当てました。水仙の花に、ミツバチが落ちていた。

5.The flower was something in the nature of a daffodil .

この花は黄水仙に似ている。