sequoia

See also: Sequoia, sequóia, and séquoia

English

Lower trunk of Sequoia sempervirens

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Sequoia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈkwɔɪ.ə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /sɪˈkwɔɪ.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ.ə
• Hyphenation: se‧quoi‧a

Noun

sequoia (plural sequoias)

1. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a coniferous evergreen tree formerly in the genus Sequoia, now placed in Sequoiadendron.
2. Sequoia sempervirens, a coniferous evergreen tree, the only living species of the genus Sequoia.

Synonyms

• (Sequoiadendron giganteum): giant sequoia, Sierra redwood
• (Sequoia sempervirens): redwood (in California), coast redwood, California redwood

Derived terms

• metasequoia
• Sequoia Crest
• sequoian
• sequoia pitch moth
• sequoiene

Translations

tree

• Armenian: սեկվոյա (hy) (sekvoya)
• Bulgarian: секвоя f (sekvoja)
• Catalan: sequoia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紅杉 / 红杉 (zh) (hóngshān)

• Czech: sekvoj f
• Dutch: sequoia (nl), reuzenpijnboom
• Finnish: punapuu (fi)
• French: séquoia (fr) m
• German: Mammutbaum (de) m
• Greek: σεκόια f (sekóia)
• Italian: sequoia (it) f
• Japanese: セコイア (ja) (sekoia)
• Occitan: sequòia f
• Persian: سکویا (sekoyâ)
• Polish: sekwoja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sequoia (pt) f, wellingtónia f
• Romanian: sequoia (ro) m
• Russian: секво́йя (ru) f (sekvójja), кра́сное де́рево (ru) n (krásnoje dérevo)
• Spanish: secuoya (es) f
• Swahili: sekwoya
• Swedish: sekvoja (sv) c, rödvedsträd (sv) n
• Volapük: gianasekvoyad
• Walloon: secoya (wa) m
• Welsh: secwoia f

References

• Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sequoiadendron giganteum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sequoia sempervirens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sequoia sempervirens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Sequoia sempervirens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English sequoia, named after Cherokee polymath Sequoyah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [səˈkwo̞.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central) [səˈkwɔ.jə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [seˈkwɔ.ja]

Noun

sequoia f (plural sequoies)

1. coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
2. giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

   Synonyms: sequoia gegant, sequoia vermella

Further reading

• “sequoia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seˈkwɔ.ja/
• Rhymes: -ɔja
• Hyphenation: se‧quò‧ia

Noun

sequoia f (plural sequoie)

1. sequoia (“tree”)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• sequóia (pre-1990 spelling)
  • seqüóia (misspelling)

Etymology

Borrowed from English sequoia.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkwɔj.ɐ/ [seˈkwɔɪ̯.ɐ], /seˈkɔj.ɐ/ [seˈkɔɪ̯.ɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkwɔj.ɐ/ [seˈkwɔɪ̯.ɐ], /seˈkɔj.ɐ/ [seˈkɔɪ̯.ɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /seˈkwɔj.a/ [seˈkwɔɪ̯.a], /seˈkɔj.a/ [seˈkɔɪ̯.a]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨˈkwɔj.ɐ/, /sɨˈkɔj.ɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔjɐ
• Hyphenation: se‧quoi‧a

Noun

sequoia f (plural sequoias)

1. sequoia; redwood (Sequoia sempervirens, a very large coniferous tree of North America)

   Synonym: wellingtónia

Usage notes

• For the pronunciation with /k/ instead of /kw/, in contradiction with the word’s spelling, compare ventríloquo.

Related terms

• sequoia-costeira
• sequoia-gigante
• sequoia-vermelha

Further reading

• “sequoia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “sequoia”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from taxonomic name Sequoia.

Noun

sequoia m (plural sequoia)

1. sequoia

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sequoia	sequoiaul	sequoia	sequoiai
genitive-dative	sequoia	sequoiaului	sequoia	sequoialor
vocative	sequoiaule		sequoialor