Editing Hydrangea (section)

==Etymology==
''Hydrangea'' is derived from [[Ancient Greek language|Greek]] and means 'water vessel' (from {{lang|el|ὕδωρ}} ''húdōr'' "water" + {{lang|el|ἄγγος}} ''ángos'' or {{lang|el|ἀγγεῖον}} ''angeîon'' "vessel"),<ref name="hudorAGEL">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Du(%2Fdwr |title=ὕδωρ |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref><ref name="angosAGEL">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a)/ggos |title=ἄγγος |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref><ref name="angeionAGEL">{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a)ggei=on |title=αγγεῖον |last1=Liddell |first1=Henry George |last2=Scott |first2=Robert |work=A Greek-English Lexicon |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |date= 1940 }}</ref> in reference to the shape of its seed capsules.<ref name="gledhill">{{cite book|last=Gledhill |first= David |year= 2008 |title= The Names of Plants |publisher= Cambridge University Press |pages= 50, 206 |isbn=9780521866453}}</ref> The earlier name, ''Hortensia'', is a Latinised version of the French given name Hortense, honoring the French astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute|Nicole-Reine Hortense Lepaute]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hortensia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207135856/https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/hortensia |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 7, 2017 |title=hortensia {{!}} Definition of hortensia in English by Oxford Dictionaries|website=Oxford Dictionaries {{!}} English |access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> [[Philibert Commerson]] attempted to name the flower ''Lepautia'' or ''Peautia'' after Lepaute. However, the flower's accepted name later became ''Hortensia''. This led to people believing Lepaute's name was Hortense, but the Larousse remarks that this is erroneous, and that the name probably came from ''hortus'', garden.<ref name=Lynn>{{cite journal |last1=Lynn |first1=W. T. |title=Madame Lepaute |journal=The Observatory |date=2 January 1911 |volume=34 |pages=77–78 |bibcode=1911Obs....34...87L |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1911Obs....34...87L |access-date=8 November 2022}}</ref>