cincinnus

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English

A cincinnus viewed from above (left) and laterally (right)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin cincinnus (“a lock of hair”).

Noun

cincinnus (plural cincinni)

  1. (botany) A type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῐ́κῐννος (kíkinnos).

Pronunciation

Noun

cincinnus m (genitive cincinnī); second declension

  1. a curled lock of hair

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cincinnus cincinnī
genitive cincinnī cincinnōrum
dative cincinnō cincinnīs
accusative cincinnum cincinnōs
ablative cincinnō cincinnīs
vocative cincinne cincinnī

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: cincinnus
  • Galician: cenceno
  • Italian: cincinno

References

  • “cincinnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cincinnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cincinnus 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)
  • cincinnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “cincinnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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