I bought these flowers last Saturday. This morning they stood in a vase on our table - shimmering in the early sunlight. I've captured this moment for you, pure and unprocessed!
The name “gladiolus” is a loan word from the Latin term “gladius” which means sword. The Gladiolus flowers with its sharp leaves represent the “roman gladiators”. Source
The name “gladiolus” is a loan word from the Latin term “gladius” which means sword. The Gladiolus flowers with its sharp leaves represent the “roman gladiators”. Source
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Artistic! It look likes a painting.
In persian we call them "Gelayol", which seems to have the same root :)
Thanks, Nastaran. Recently I was listening to a radio interview with a lady from Iran, she was a poet (sorry, don't remember her name). She told that some words in the Germanic languages have Persian roots - I remember that she mentioned the words GOOD ('goed' in Dutch) and MOTHER ('moeder' in Dutch). She also told that the language has more in common with Western-European languages than with Arabic (stupid me, I used to think Persian was an Arabic language until you told me otherwise...) :-)
This lady also read a poem in Persian and I noticed the sharp G-sounds that we also have in the Netherlands!
I guess that the flower names are often derived from Latin, although we do have many flower names that are specifically Dutch.
The famous Dutch tulip comes originally from Turkey, by the way.
When it comes to photographs, we can all share them freely and world-wide on the internet, because flowers and images don't need to be described in words, they speak their own languages!
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