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Latin
Etymology
From Old Latin *lecinos, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).[1][2][3] See also Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá, “bent, broken”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos) and λοξός (loxós, “slanting, crosswise”), Lithuanian lugnas, and Old Norse lykna.
Pronunciation
Adjective
licinus (feminine licina, neuter licinum); first/second-declension adjective
- bent or turned upward
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “licinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- licinus 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)
- licinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “licinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “licinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray