From crīnis (“hair”) + -ītus (“-ed”), possibly originally formed by combining an instrumental singular case-form ending in *-ih₁ + -tus.[1] In form, the word can be interpreted as a participle of a fourth-conjugation verb crīniō (“to cover, as if with hair”); as this is rare and usually used only in the sense of foliage, the verb is probably a back-formation from the adjective.
crīnītus (feminine crīnīta, neuter crīnītum); first/second-declension adjective
First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | crīnītus | crīnīta | crīnītum | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnīta | |
genitive | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnītī | crīnītōrum | crīnītārum | crīnītōrum | |
dative | crīnītō | crīnītae | crīnītō | crīnītīs | |||
accusative | crīnītum | crīnītam | crīnītum | crīnītōs | crīnītās | crīnīta | |
ablative | crīnītō | crīnītā | crīnītō | crīnītīs | |||
vocative | crīnīte | crīnīta | crīnītum | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnīta |