cincture

English

Etymology

From Latin cinctura. Cognate with Spanish cintura (“waist”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɪŋk.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋktʃə(ɹ)

Noun

cincture (plural cinctures)

1. An enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing
2. A girdle or belt, especially as part of a vestment
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books (1988), page 161

     In one, dated eighteen years ago, he appeared, wearing only sandals and a cincture of vine leaves, between two classical garden statues.

3. (architecture) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Translations

an enclosure, or the act of enclosing, encircling or encompassing

• Bulgarian: опасване n (opasvane)
• Irish: bábhún m
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girdle or belt

• Bulgarian: колан (bg) (kolan), пояс (bg) (pojas)
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• German: Zingulum n
• Irish: crios (ga) m

(architecture) the fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column

• Irish: caiseal (colúin) m
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Verb

cincture (third-person singular simple present cinctures, present participle cincturing, simple past and past participle cinctured)

1. To encircle, or surround.
2. (viniculture) To girdle (stunt or kill by cutting).

Translations

to girdle

• Bulgarian: опасвам (bg) (opasvam)
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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) cīnctūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cīnctūrus