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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Scottish Gaelic crion (“withered”) and Irish críon (“withered, decayed”), in any case, from Old Irish crín.
Verb
crine (third-person singular simple present crines, present participle crining, simple past and past participle crined)
- (intransitive, Scotland) To wither, wilt, shrivel.
Etymology 2
From Middle French crine (French crin), Italian crine, or directly from Latin crīnis (“hair of the head, lock of hair, plume”).
Noun
crine (countable and uncountable, plural crines)
- (obsolete) Hair of the head.
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Latin crīnis, from Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kre-i-s-, extension of the root *(s)ker- (“to turn; to bend”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkri.ne/
- Rhymes: -ine
- Hyphenation: crì‧ne
Noun
crine m (plural crini)
- any hair from the mane or tail of a horse or other similar animal
- horsehair
13th century, “Del conoscimento della bellezza de’ Cavalli”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 405:I crini sien piani, e pochi- The hairs should be straight, and few
- (collective) a mass of such hair
- a fabric made from such hair
- (poetic) a hair
- Synonym: capello
1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991:tutto spogliata di vestimenti, e’ crini del capo diligentemente scrinati- Completely stripped of clothes, and diligently styled hair
- (poetic, collective) hair
- Synonym: capelli
1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Il sabato del villaggio”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 95:ornare ella si appresta ¶ dimani, al dí di festa, il petto e il crine- She prepares to ornate, tomorrow, on the day of the festival, the chest and the hair
- tail (visible stream from a comet)
- Synonym: coda
1581, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro V, page 243:Tal sovente dal ciel divelta cade ¶ Notturna stella, e trascorrendo lascia ¶ Dopo sè lungo e luminoso il crine.- Like that, a night star torn from the sky often falls, and, passing, it leaves after itself long and bright tail.
- (poetic) ray, beam
- Synonym: raggio
1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto ⅩⅩⅣ, page 355, lines 1–3:In quella parte del giovanetto anno ¶ che ’l sole i crin sotto l'Aquario tempra- In that part of the young year where the Sun makes the rays warm under the Aquarius
- (Tuscan) Synonym of crinale
Derived terms
Further reading
- crine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
crīne
- ablative singular of crīnis
Scots
Etymology
From Gaelic crìon (fade, wither).
Verb
crine
- shrink, shrivel
Usage notes
Often in the phrase "to crine in", meaning to become smaller in old age.
Spanish
Verb
crine
- inflection of crinar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative