endive
pronunciation
How to pronounce endive in British English:
UK [ˈendaɪv]
How to pronounce endive in American English:
US [ˈɛnˌdaɪv, ˈɑnˌdiv]
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- Noun:
- widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched
- variety of endive having leaves with irregular frilled edges
Word Origin
- endive (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French endive (14c.), from Medieval Latin endivia or a related Romanic source, from Latin intibus. This probably is connected in some way with Medieval Greek entybon, which Klein says is perhaps of Eastern origin (compare Egyptian tybi "January," the time the plant grows in Egypt). Century Dictionary says Arabic hindiba is "appar. of European origin."
Example
- 1. A couple , including ice cream , and an endive and nut salad , sound ok , but really , would you bother ?
- 2. Time and time again , how your knives have pulled my ass out of the fire.you chiffonade belgian endive for eight hours , and you might get some idea what my life is like .