canthus

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).

Pronunciation

Noun

canthus (plural canthi or canthuses)

  1. (anatomy) Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
    • 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
      the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus
    • 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:
      I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.
    • 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

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Related terms

- canthoplasty

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling of cantus. The term for “rim of a wheel” is ultimately of Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *kantos (“corner, rim”). Related to Breton kant (“circle”), Old Irish cétad (“round seat”), Welsh cant (“rim, edge”).

The frequent spelling with -th- is due to the influence of unrelated (or possible Indo-European cognate) κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”) (see Etymology 2), which after its borrowing became conflated with the Gaulish term for "rim" in Latin.

Noun

canthus m (genitive canthī); second declension

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  1. the iron ring around a carriage wheel; the tire
  2. a wheel
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative canthus canthī
Genitive canthī canthōrum
Dative canthō canthīs
Accusative canthum canthōs
Ablative canthō canthīs
Vocative canthe canthī
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek κανθός (kanthós, “corner of the eye”), which became conflated with the above.

Noun

canthus m (genitive canthī); second declension

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  1. (anatomy) corner of the eye
Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative canthus canthī
Genitive canthī canthōrum
Dative canthō canthīs
Accusative canthum canthōs
Ablative canthō canthīs
Vocative canthe canthī

References

  1. ^ Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Kante”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
  2. ^ https://latinlexicon.org/definition.php?p1=2008305
  3. ^ Topalli, K. (2017) “canthus”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1409
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