acinus

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English

Etymology

From Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.

Pronunciation

Noun

acinus (plural acini)

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  1. (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
    Coordinate term: vesicle
  2. (botany) A grape-stone.
  3. (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
    • 1828, Jones Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy:
      Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

Derived terms

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From aciēs (“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.

Pronunciation

Noun

acinus m (genitive acinī); second declension

  1. a berry, especially the grape.
  2. the seed of a berry.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative acinus acinī
Genitive acinī acinōrum
Dative acinō acinīs
Accusative acinum acinōs
Ablative acinō acinīs
Vocative acine acinī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: acinus
  • Galician: acio
  • Irish: aicíneas
  • Italian: acino
  • Portuguese: ácino

References

  • “acinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “acinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • acinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • acinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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