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Latin
Etymology
From cincinnus (“lock of curly hair”) + -ātus (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cincinnātus (feminine cincinnāta, neuter cincinnātum); first/second-declension adjective
- Having curly hair or ringlets
- Of comets
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “cincinnatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cincinnatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cincinnatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cincinnatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cincinnatus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray