narcissusn.

Brit.

/nɑːˈsɪsəs/, U.S.

/nɑrˈsɪsəs/

Forms: Old English 1500s– narcissus, Old English–1500s narcisus, Middle English marcisus (transmission error). Plural 1600s 1800s– narcissi, 1700s– narcissuses, 1800s narcissusses, 1900s– narcissus. Also with capital initial.

Origin: Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Latin narcissus; proper name Narcissus.

Etymology: In sense 1 < classical Latin narcissus < ancient Greek νάρκισσος , of unknown origin, probably a loanword (see note). In sense 2 < Narcissus, the name of a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a fountain; Ovid ( Metamorphoses 3. 370) who tells the story, says that where he died the flower sprang up which bears his name. Compare Italian narciso, the flower (1483; c1340 as narcisso), vain person (a1742), Middle French, French narcisse, the flower (1538 in botany; 1363 in narciz ynde translating Latin Narcissus Yndus, the name of a colour), vain person (1668; 1552 in un vrai Narcisse, a1648 in sense ‘beautiful young man’) and also German Narzisse (feminine), the flower (16th cent.), Narziss (masculine) vain person, Dutch narcis, the flower (1554), Swedish narciss, the flower (17th cent.).Pliny and Plutarch derive νάρκισσος < νάρκη numbness (see narcosis n.), in reference to the narcotic effects produced by it, but this view is not now generally accepted. In Old English and early Middle English used with Latin case inflections.

1. Any of numerous spring-flowering bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus (family Amaryllidaceae), native to Europe and the Mediterranean, which includes the daffodils; (also, in form Narcissus) the genus itself. Now chiefly (esp. in Horticulture): such a plant with flowers that typically have white or pale outer petals surrounding a short orange or yellow corona (trumpet) and often several flowers on the stem (cf. daffodil n. 2, 3); spec. a poetaz hybrid. Also: a flowering stem of such a plant.Adopted as a genus name in J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariæ (1700) I. 353. Valid publication: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 289.In quot. 1557 with poetic allusion to sense 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus

narcissusOE

daffodil1548

laus tibi1548

affodill1551

primrose peerless1578

narciss1586

jonquil1629

Spanish trumpet1664

hoop-petticoat1731

poet's narcissus?1786

poet's daffodil1798

Queen Anne's double jonquil1806

polyanthus narcissus1841

tazetta1847

sweet Nancy1848

polyanth narcissus1856

pheasant's eye1872

peerless primrose1884

Tenby daffodil1884

Queen Anne's daffodil1889

poetaz1906

OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lvi. 100 Wið þa wunda þe on þam men beoð acenned genim þysse wyrte wyrttruman ðe man narcisum & oþrum naman halswyrt nemneð.

?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) cv. 73 Nim þisse wurte wurtrume, þat man narcisum & oþrum nama halswyrt nemnaþ.

1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.vj Narcissus is of diuerse sortes.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. M.iiii In gardens if I walk: Narcissus there I spy, and Hyacints with weepyng chere.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 209 There are two very faire and beautifull kindes of Narcissus.

a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) i. sig. B7 Red Hyacinth, and yealow Daffadill, Purple Narcissus, like the morning rayes.

1637 J. Milton Lycidas (MS draft) in Compl. Wks. (2012) III. 532 Next adde Narcissus y^t still weeps in vaine.

c1709 M. Prior 2nd Hymn Callimachus 99 The yellow crocus there, and fair narcissus.

1791 H. Walpole Let. 29 June (1905) XV. 11 Cliveden will look beautiful with your narcissuses.

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 158 Narcissi, the fairest among them all.

1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 190/1 The genus Narcissus is a very extensive one, embracing, as it does, the Jonquils, the Polyanthus Narcissus, the little Hoop Petticoat, the Poet's Narcissus, and the Daffodils, besides numerous others.

1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 98/2 Paperwhite narcissus, French and Roman Hyacinths, [etc.].

1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xii. 114 Many of the popular narcissi, including daffodils,..can be grown successfully as cut flowers in the greenhouse.

2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 94/3 Here they partner naturalised primroses, small narcissi and the cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis.

2. Greek Mythology. (The name of) a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in water and pined to death. Hence (allusively): a person characterized by extreme self-admiration or vanity; a narcissist.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful man or boy

Cupidc1381

narcissusc1385

Ganymede?1566

Adonis?1571

Greek goda1910

beefcake1949

the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [noun] > vain person

puppy?1544

self-lover1555

coxcomb1567

feather-cock1612

self-admirer1633

self-idolater1643

cockcomb1684

peachick1693

worship-willer1721

narcissus1767

narcissist1917

c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1941 Nat was foryeten the porter ydelnesse, Ne Narcisus, the faire, of yore agon.

a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1503 For Narcisus,..By auenture come to that welle To resten hym in that shadowing.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 97 Go get thee hence, Had'st thou Narcissus in thy face to me, Thou would'st appeere most vgly.

1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 38 She hates to see, or shew her selfe to men, Unlesse Narcissus could live one agen.

1707 E. Ward London Terræfilius No. 1. 11 A Neat Prim Fellow..with a Narcissus Countenance, a Shape so Amiable.

1767 W. Kenrick tr. J. J. Rousseau Misc. Wks. II. 121 (title) Narcissus, or the self-admirer. A comedy.

1860 A. J. Munby Diary 10 Feb. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 49 His face..seemed to me weak and self-conscious; a Narcissus face.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 4 This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus.

1944 Philos. Rev. 53 462 Man is degraded into a Narcissus when he falls before the temptation to mistake the ideal image of art for his real self.

1983 E. Pizzey Watershed iii. xxxix. 306 If you marry a narcissus, you will always end up wounded.

2001 Canberra Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. a2 I am a bit of a narcissus (the way minor celebrities in provincial cities tend to be).

Compounds

narcissus complex n. Psychology a condition of extreme self-absorption; narcissism.

ΚΠ

1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 623 There are four main phases to the narcissus complex.

1981 N.Y. Times i. 12/1 When a man with a Narcissus complex falls out of love with himself..what can one do?

2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 12 July Mosley had a narcissus complex, and it could have steered him into becoming a major statesman.

narcissus-flowered anemone n. an anemone, Anemone narcissifolia (formerly narcissiflora), of alpine meadows in central and southern Europe, with umbels of white, often pink-flushed flowers.

ΚΠ

1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 52 A. Narcissiflora. Narcissus flowered Anemone.

1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Narcissus-flowered Anemone, Anemone narcissiflora.

1972 O. Polunin Conc. Guide Flowers Brit. & Europe 2 Narcissus-flowered Anemone... A handsome anemone.

1995 C. Grey-Wilson & M. Blamey Alpine Flowers Brit. & Europe (ed. 2) 58 Narcissus-flowered anemone... Fls white, often pink flushed below.

narcissus fly n. a bee-like hoverfly of either of the genera Merodon and Eumerus, esp. M. equestris, whose larvae infest the bulbs of narcissus and other plants and cause them to rot.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Syrphidae > lampetia equestris (narcissus fly)

narcissus fly1903

1903 F. V. Theobald First Rep. Econ. Entomol. 107 A correspondent..sent the larvæ of the Narcissus Fly, from Chertsey, with the following note: ‘They play havoc with the narcissus bulbs and are evidently the maggot of some fly.’

1966 Punch 28 Sept. 485/3 There are in Britain some two hundred and twenty known varieties of hover fly, of which only the Narcissus flies are destructive.

1992 M. Gratwick Crop Pests UK lvi. 290/1 There are three species of narcissus fly or bulb fly in Britain.

Derivatives

Narˈcissus-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of the youth Narcissus, like Narcissus; (b) adj. resembling Narcissus (rare).

ΚΠ

1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xiii. sig. Q2^v Nought seeing but their shadows in a bath: Narcissus-like pining to see a show.

a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 98 And for his shade which therein shines, Narcissus like, the Sun too pines.

1770 Monthly Rev. 72 One of those Narcissus-like, or Lady-like, gentlemen, called a male-coquet.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1969) I. 509 Over these shadows..Narcissus-like, he hangs delighted.

1875 W. M. W. Call Reverberations i. 61 Man, Narcissus-like, beheld his form Mirrored now in ocean, now in sky.

1992 Amer. Lit. 64 549 Her brother gazing at himself Narcissus-like in the stream.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	narcissus
释义	narcissusn. Brit. /nɑːˈsɪsəs/, U.S. /nɑrˈsɪsəs/ Forms: Old English 1500s– narcissus, Old English–1500s narcisus, Middle English marcisus (transmission error). Plural 1600s 1800s– narcissi, 1700s– narcissuses, 1800s narcissusses, 1900s– narcissus. Also with capital initial. Origin: Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly from a proper name. Etymons: Latin narcissus; proper name Narcissus. Etymology: In sense 1 < classical Latin narcissus < ancient Greek νάρκισσος , of unknown origin, probably a loanword (see note). In sense 2 < Narcissus, the name of a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in a fountain; Ovid ( Metamorphoses 3. 370) who tells the story, says that where he died the flower sprang up which bears his name. Compare Italian narciso, the flower (1483; c1340 as narcisso), vain person (a1742), Middle French, French narcisse, the flower (1538 in botany; 1363 in narciz ynde translating Latin Narcissus Yndus, the name of a colour), vain person (1668; 1552 in un vrai Narcisse, a1648 in sense ‘beautiful young man’) and also German Narzisse (feminine), the flower (16th cent.), Narziss (masculine) vain person, Dutch narcis, the flower (1554), Swedish narciss, the flower (17th cent.).Pliny and Plutarch derive νάρκισσος < νάρκη numbness (see narcosis n.), in reference to the narcotic effects produced by it, but this view is not now generally accepted. In Old English and early Middle English used with Latin case inflections. 1. Any of numerous spring-flowering bulbous plants of the genus Narcissus (family Amaryllidaceae), native to Europe and the Mediterranean, which includes the daffodils; (also, in form Narcissus) the genus itself. Now chiefly (esp. in Horticulture): such a plant with flowers that typically have white or pale outer petals surrounding a short orange or yellow corona (trumpet) and often several flowers on the stem (cf. daffodil n. 2, 3); spec. a poetaz hybrid. Also: a flowering stem of such a plant.Adopted as a genus name in J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariæ (1700) I. 353. Valid publication: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 289.In quot. 1557 with poetic allusion to sense 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > daffodil and allied flowers > daffodil or narcissus narcissusOE daffodil1548 laus tibi1548 affodill1551 primrose peerless1578 narciss1586 jonquil1629 Spanish trumpet1664 hoop-petticoat1731 poet's narcissus?1786 poet's daffodil1798 Queen Anne's double jonquil1806 polyanthus narcissus1841 tazetta1847 sweet Nancy1848 polyanth narcissus1856 pheasant's eye1872 peerless primrose1884 Tenby daffodil1884 Queen Anne's daffodil1889 poetaz1906 OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lvi. 100 Wið þa wunda þe on þam men beoð acenned genim þysse wyrte wyrttruman ðe man narcisum & oþrum naman halswyrt nemneð. ?a1200 ( tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Harl. 6258B) cv. 73 Nim þisse wurte wurtrume, þat man narcisum & oþrum nama halswyrt nemnaþ. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.vj Narcissus is of diuerse sortes. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. M.iiii In gardens if I walk: Narcissus there I spy, and Hyacints with weepyng chere. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 209 There are two very faire and beautifull kindes of Narcissus. a1609 J. Dennys Secrets of Angling (1613) i. sig. B7 Red Hyacinth, and yealow Daffadill, Purple Narcissus, like the morning rayes. 1637 J. Milton Lycidas (MS draft) in Compl. Wks. (2012) III. 532 Next adde Narcissus y^t still weeps in vaine. c1709 M. Prior 2nd Hymn Callimachus 99 The yellow crocus there, and fair narcissus. 1791 H. Walpole Let. 29 June (1905) XV. 11 Cliveden will look beautiful with your narcissuses. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 158 Narcissi, the fairest among them all. 1841 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. to Flower Garden 190/1 The genus Narcissus is a very extensive one, embracing, as it does, the Jonquils, the Polyanthus Narcissus, the little Hoop Petticoat, the Poet's Narcissus, and the Daffodils, besides numerous others. 1889 Harper's Mag. Feb. 367/1 The daffodil, the ‘pheasant-eye’, and the ‘hoop-petticoat’ are all narcissuses. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 98/2 Paperwhite narcissus, French and Roman Hyacinths, [etc.]. 1974 S. Clapham Greenhouse Bk. xii. 114 Many of the popular narcissi, including daffodils,..can be grown successfully as cut flowers in the greenhouse. 2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 94/3 Here they partner naturalised primroses, small narcissi and the cuckoo flower, Cardamine pratensis. 2. Greek Mythology. (The name of) a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in water and pined to death. Hence (allusively): a person characterized by extreme self-admiration or vanity; a narcissist. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person > beautiful person > beautiful man or boy Cupidc1381 narcissusc1385 Ganymede?1566 Adonis?1571 Greek goda1910 beefcake1949 the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > vanity > [noun] > vain person puppy?1544 self-lover1555 coxcomb1567 feather-cock1612 self-admirer1633 self-idolater1643 cockcomb1684 peachick1693 worship-willer1721 narcissus1767 narcissist1917 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1941 Nat was foryeten the porter ydelnesse, Ne Narcisus, the faire, of yore agon. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1503 For Narcisus,..By auenture come to that welle To resten hym in that shadowing. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. v. 97 Go get thee hence, Had'st thou Narcissus in thy face to me, Thou would'st appeere most vgly. View more context for this quotation 1653 Duchess of Newcastle Poems & Fancies 38 She hates to see, or shew her selfe to men, Unlesse Narcissus could live one agen. 1707 E. Ward London Terræfilius No. 1. 11 A Neat Prim Fellow..with a Narcissus Countenance, a Shape so Amiable. 1767 W. Kenrick tr. J. J. Rousseau Misc. Wks. II. 121 (title) Narcissus, or the self-admirer. A comedy. 1860 A. J. Munby Diary 10 Feb. in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 49 His face..seemed to me weak and self-conscious; a Narcissus face. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray i. 4 This young Adonis, who looks as if he was made out of ivory and rose-leaves. Why, my dear Basil, he is a Narcissus. 1944 Philos. Rev. 53 462 Man is degraded into a Narcissus when he falls before the temptation to mistake the ideal image of art for his real self. 1983 E. Pizzey Watershed iii. xxxix. 306 If you marry a narcissus, you will always end up wounded. 2001 Canberra Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. a2 I am a bit of a narcissus (the way minor celebrities in provincial cities tend to be). Compounds narcissus complex n. Psychology a condition of extreme self-absorption; narcissism. ΚΠ 1924 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 29 623 There are four main phases to the narcissus complex. 1981 N.Y. Times i. 12/1 When a man with a Narcissus complex falls out of love with himself..what can one do? 2001 Independent (Electronic ed.) 12 July Mosley had a narcissus complex, and it could have steered him into becoming a major statesman. narcissus-flowered anemone n. an anemone, Anemone narcissifolia (formerly narcissiflora), of alpine meadows in central and southern Europe, with umbels of white, often pink-flushed flowers. ΚΠ 1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 52 A. Narcissiflora. Narcissus flowered Anemone. 1885 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. V. i Narcissus-flowered Anemone, Anemone narcissiflora. 1972 O. Polunin Conc. Guide Flowers Brit. & Europe 2 Narcissus-flowered Anemone... A handsome anemone. 1995 C. Grey-Wilson & M. Blamey Alpine Flowers Brit. & Europe (ed. 2) 58 Narcissus-flowered anemone... Fls white, often pink flushed below. narcissus fly n. a bee-like hoverfly of either of the genera Merodon and Eumerus, esp. M. equestris, whose larvae infest the bulbs of narcissus and other plants and cause them to rot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Syrphidae > lampetia equestris (narcissus fly) narcissus fly1903 1903 F. V. Theobald First Rep. Econ. Entomol. 107 A correspondent..sent the larvæ of the Narcissus Fly, from Chertsey, with the following note: ‘They play havoc with the narcissus bulbs and are evidently the maggot of some fly.’ 1966 Punch 28 Sept. 485/3 There are in Britain some two hundred and twenty known varieties of hover fly, of which only the Narcissus flies are destructive. 1992 M. Gratwick Crop Pests UK lvi. 290/1 There are three species of narcissus fly or bulb fly in Britain. Derivatives Narˈcissus-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of the youth Narcissus, like Narcissus; (b) adj. resembling Narcissus (rare). ΚΠ 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. xiii. sig. Q2^v Nought seeing but their shadows in a bath: Narcissus-like pining to see a show. a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 98 And for his shade which therein shines, Narcissus like, the Sun too pines. 1770 Monthly Rev. 72 One of those Narcissus-like, or Lady-like, gentlemen, called a male-coquet. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1969) I. 509 Over these shadows..Narcissus-like, he hangs delighted. 1875 W. M. W. Call Reverberations i. 61 Man, Narcissus-like, beheld his form Mirrored now in ocean, now in sky. 1992 Amer. Lit. 64 549 Her brother gazing at himself Narcissus-like in the stream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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