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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unknown. A prenasalized *κίγκιννος (*kínkinnos) is assumed source of Latin cincinnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kí.kin.nos/ → /ˈci.cin.nos/ → /ˈci.ci.nos/
Noun
κῐ́κῐννος • (kíkinnos) m (genitive κῐκῐ́ννου); second declension
- lock of curly hair.
- ringlet.
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίκιννος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN