orchis – English noun declension

English noun forms of orchis

Noun: orchis
Singularorchis
Pluralorchises; orchides

Sample Sentences

  • [T]heir maid has dreſſed their hats with cowſlips, orchiſſes, cuckoo-flowers, and golden-cups—[…] [1792, Charlotte Smith, “Letter XIV. To Miss Waverly.”, in Desmond. […], volume II, London: […] G[eorge,] G[eorge,] J[ohn] and J[ames] Robinson, […], →OCLC, page 195:]
  • In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade. [1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:]
  • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin. [1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91]

Nouns inflected like orchis

chrysalis, orchis,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁órǵʰis
3. Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis)bor.
4. Latin orchisbor.
5. English orchis
6. Borrowed from Latin orchis, from Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis, “testicle”). See: Latin Nouns 'orchis', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ὄρχις'.