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Icelandic
Noun
sinum
- indefinite dative plural of sin
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Maybe from a Proto-Indo-European root common with Lithuanian sìlis (“crib”) and sìlė (“trough”).[1]
Noun
sīnum n (genitive sīnī); second declension
- A large, round drinking vessel with swelling sides
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Etymology 2
Noun
sinum
- accusative singular of sinus
References
- “sinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sinum 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)
- sinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) on good grounds; reasonably: non sine causa
- (ambiguous) without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
- (ambiguous) without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione
- (ambiguous) without delay: sine mora or nulla mora interposita
- (ambiguous) to be driven into the arms of philosophy: in sinum philosophiae compelli
- (ambiguous) indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia
- (ambiguous) to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
- (ambiguous) without any disguise, frankly: sine fuco ac fallaciis (Att. 1. 1. 1)
- (ambiguous) with no moderation: sine modo; nullo modo adhibito
- (ambiguous) to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
- (ambiguous) to restore prisoners without ransom: captivos sine pretio reddere
- “sinum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Old English
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sīnum
- inflection of sīn:
- dative masculine/neuter singular
- dative/instrumental masculine/feminine/neuter plural