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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of revinciō (“bind back, tie back”).
Participle
revīnctus (feminine revīncta, neuter revīnctum); first/second-declension participle
- bound back, tied back, having been tied back, etc.
- bound, fastened, festooned, draped, decorated, wreathed, having been bound, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.457–459:
- Praetereā fuit in tēctīs dē marmore templum
coniugis antīquī, mīrō quod honōre colēbat,
velleribus niveīs et fēstā fronde revīnctum.- Moreover, there was in palace a marble shrine of her former husband, whom she cherished with marvelous honor, wreathed with snowy fleeces and festive foliage.
(The “velleribus niveis” are probably woolen ribbons or fillets.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “revinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “revinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- revinctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.