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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cernuus (feminine cernua, neuter cernuum); first/second-declension adjective
- with the face turned towards the earth, inclined forwards, stooping or bowing forwards
- Tantum ergo Sacramentum / Veneremur cernui (Tantum Ergo, Thomas Aquinas)
- Therefore, so great a Sacrament / Let us, bowed down, venerate
- (Vergilian) falling over
- Equus cernuus (Aeneid liber X 894)
- falling horse
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "cernuus", 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)
- cernuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cernuus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cernuus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin