narcissus

Other forms of narcissus

plural

narcissi

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about narcissus

What does narcissus mean?

narcissus means "bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in narcissus?

narcissus has 3 syllables: nar-cis-sus. The stress falls on "cis". In IPA it is /nɑɹˈsɪsəs/.

Is narcissus a common word?

narcissus is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.