Borrowed from Latin cynanchē, from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kunánkhē, “a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat”). Doublet of quinsy.
cynanche (plural cynanches)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cynanche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kunánkhē).
cynanchē f (genitive cynanchēs); first declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | cynanchē | cynanchae |
| genitive | cynanchēs | cynanchārum |
| dative | cynanchae | cynanchīs |
| accusative | cynanchēn | cynanchās |
| ablative | cynanchē | cynanchīs |
| vocative | cynanchē | cynanchae |