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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Latin crista, crispus (“curly”) and Albanian krip.
Pronunciation
Noun
crīnis m (genitive crīnis); third declension
- hair of the head, lock of hair, plume
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.698-699:
- Nōndum illī flāvum Prōserpina vertice crīnem
abstulerat, Stygiōque caput damnāverat Orcō.- Proserpina had not yet taken that lock of blonde hair from head, condemned life to Stygian Orcus.
(Frieze, Henry , Virgil’s Aeneid, 2nd ed., pg 463: “A lock of hair is cut from the forehead of the dying as a sign of dedication to the gods below.”)
- tail of a comet
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
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References
- “crinis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crinis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crinis 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)
- crinis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
- with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
- “crinis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “crinis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin