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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon).
Noun
crinon n (genitive crinī); second declension
- red lily
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).
References
- “crinon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- crinon 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)
- “crinon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray