crinitus

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Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Adjective

crīnītus (feminine crīnīta, neuter crīnītum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. hairy
  2. long-haired

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  1. ^ Fortson, B. W., IV. (2020). "Towards an assessment of decasuative derivation in Indo-European," Indo-European Linguistics, 8(1), 46-109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10004

Further reading

  • crinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • crinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crinitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.