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Hyacinth

//ˈhaɪəsɪnθ// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
Alternative form of Hyacinthus. alt-of, alternative
2
A male given name from Ancient Greek. rare
3
A female given name from English. One of the less common flower names used since the 19th century.

Noun

1
Any bulbous plant of the genus Hyacinthus, native to the Mediterranean and South Africa.
"On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue."
2
any of numerous bulbous perennial herbs wordnet
3
A variety of zircon, ranging in color from brown, orange, reddish-brown and yellow; a jacinth.
4
a red transparent variety of zircon used as a gemstone wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English jacinth, partly from Old French jacincte, from Medieval Latin jacintus, and partly from Old English iacinþ, from Medieval Latin jacinthus, both from Latin hyacinthus, from Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos, “any of several dark blue flowers”), ultimately from a non-Indo-European Mediterranean language. Re-Latinized in the 16th century.

Etymology 2

From Latin Hyacinthus, a saint's name from the name of an Ancient Greek Ὑάκινθος (Huákinthos), a mythological character .

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