ergot

ergot

English

Barley grain with ergots (sclerotia of Claviceps purpurea)

Etymology

Borrowed from French ergot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɜːɡət/

Noun

ergot (countable and uncountable, plural ergots)

1. Any fungus in the genus Claviceps which are parasitic on grasses.
2. The sclerotium (wintering stage) of certain fungi in the genus Claviceps, appearing as a deformed grain in certain cereals and grasses infected by the fungi.
   • 1980, Albert Hofmann; Jonathan Ott (translator), chapter 1, in LSD, My Problem Child‎, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN:

     Ergot first appeared on the stage of history in the early Middle Ages, as the cause of outbreaks of mass poisonings affecting thousands of persons at a time. The illness, whose connection with ergot was for a long time obscure, appeared in two characteristic forms, one gangrenous (ergotismus gangraenosus) and the other convulsive (ergotismus convulsivus).

Derived terms

• ergotamine
• ergotic
• ergotism
• ergosterol

Translations

any fungus of the genus Claviceps

Bulgarian: мораво рогче n (moravo rogče) French: ergot (fr) m Galician: cornizó (gl) m, cornecho m, dentón (gl) m, caruncho (gl) m German: Mutterkornpilz m Greek: Ancient Greek: ἐμπυρισμός m (empurismós) Hungarian: anyarozs (hu), varjúköröm (hu) Irish: eargót m Polish: buławinka f Portuguese: cravagem f Russian: спорынья́ (ru) f (sporynʹjá) Spanish: cornezuelo (es) m, tizón (es) m Welsh: mall rhyg m, malltod rhyg m, mallryg m

deformed grain

Catalan: banya del sègol f Finnish: torajyvä (fi), härkäjyvä French: ergot (fr) m Galician: cornizó (gl) m, cornello m, dentón (gl) m, caruncho (gl) m German: Mutterkorn (de) n Polish: sporysz m Portuguese: cravagem f Spanish: cornezuelo (es) m, tizón (es) m

See also

• sclerotium

References

• ergot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Further reading

• ergot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Grote, Roget, Trego, etrog, grote, regot

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French

Etymology

From Old French argot, considered from a substrate root *arg- related to thorns and pointy things widespread in Western Romance, for related forms see Galician argana (“awn”), Spanish aulaga (“gorse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛʁ.ɡo/

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Noun

ergot m (plural ergots)

1. spur of a male member of Galliformes
2. ergot

Descendants

• → English: ergot
• → Romanian: ergot

Further reading

• “ergot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ergot.

Noun

ergot n (plural ergoturi)

1. ergot

Declension

Declension of ergot

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) ergot	ergotul	(niște) ergoturi	ergoturile
genitive/dative	(unui) ergot	ergotului	(unor) ergoturi	ergoturilor
vocative	ergotule		ergoturilor