endive

• endyve (obsolete)

From Middle French endive, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, from Late Latin intibus.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndaɪv/, /ɒnˈdiːv/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndaɪv/, /ˈɛndɪv/, /ˈɒndiːv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: (US) -iːv

endive (countable and uncountable, plural endives)

1. A leafy salad vegetable, Cichorium endivia, which is often confused with common chicory (Cichorium intybus).
   • 1787, Charlotte Mason, The Lady's Assistant for Regulating and Supplying the Table‎^[1], page 192:

     When all this is ready, take some endive and Dutch lettuce, some chervil and celery, wash and drain them very well, cut them small, put them into a saucepan, and pour some of the broth upon them […]

   • 1805, William Augustus Henderson, The Housekeeper's Instructor, Or, Universal Family Cook‎^[2], page 110:

     Take the three heads of endive out of the water, drain them, and leave the largest whole.

   • 1915 August 28, Marion Harris Neil, “When Lettus is Scarce”, in The Country Gentleman‎^[3], volume 80, page 1379:

     Broad leaved, green curled or white curled, the endive plants are good; the green sorts, on account of their coolness and their plentiful salts, are esteemed for the salad bowl, and the white-curled sorts are liked for soups, stews and as boiled vegetables.

   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables‎^[4], page 146:

     Endive and escarole are the same vegetable, but endive has leaves that are cut and curled, while escarole has smooth, broad leaves.

• (Cichorium endivia): curly endive, escarole, frisée lettuce, frisée; broad-leaved endive

• Belgian endive (from Cichorium intybus)

• escarole

• endive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Devine, devein, envied, veined

Inherited from Middle French endive, endivie, andive, indivie, from Medieval Latin endivia or Italian indivia or endivia, suspected via Byzantine Greek ἐντύβιον (entúbion) from Latin intibus.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.div/

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endive f (plural endives)

1. (cooking) Belgian endive (edible chicory bud of Cichorium intybus)

   Synonym: chicon

   Une salade d’endive.

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In a strict botanical sense, French endive or English Belgian endive is actually not an endive (of the species Cichorium endivia) but a common chicory (Cichorium intybus).^[1]

• → Iranian Persian: آنْدیوْ (ândiv)

• chicorée

• endive on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “endive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.