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English
Etymology
From Latin cicatrix.
Pronunciation
Noun
cicatrix (plural cicatrixes or cicatrices)
- A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
1853, John C. Cobden, The White Slaves of England, Cincinnati: Derby, page 33:Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument...
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter II, in Capricornia, page 21:He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.
Derived terms
Translations
scar that remains after the development of new tissue
— see scarLatin
Etymology
Unknown etymology, possibly from a substrate.
Pronunciation
Noun
cicātrīx f (genitive cicātrīcis); third declension
- scar
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “cicatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cicatrix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicatrix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
- to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam