cilium

See also: Cilium

English

Etymology

From Latin cilium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.li.əm/
• Hyphenation: cil‧i‧um

Noun

cilium (plural cilia)

1. (botany) Hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of a plant organ.
2. (cytology) A hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism). These structures serve either for locomotion by moving or as sensors.
3. (entomology) One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.

Translations

hair along the margin of an organ

• Bulgarian: ресница f (resnica)
• Finnish: ripsi (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

hairlike organelle projecting from eukaryotic cell

• Bulgarian: ресна (bg) f (resna)
• Czech: řasinka f, brva (cs) f
• Finnish: värekarva (fi)
• Greek: βλεφαρίδα (el) f (vlefarída)
• Kurdish:
• Nepali: पक्ष्म (pakṣma)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: rzęska f
• Portuguese: cílio (pt) m
• Russian: ресни́чка (ru) f (resníčka)
• Spanish: cilio (es) m
• Swedish: cilie (sv) c

See also

• flagellum

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-yo-m, which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈki.li.um/, [ˈkɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.li.um/, [ˈt͡ʃiːlium]

Noun

cilium n (genitive ciliī or cilī); second declension

1. (anatomy) eyelid
2. (Medieval Latin) eyelash

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cilium	cilia
Genitive	ciliī cilī1	ciliōrum
Dative	ciliō	ciliīs
Accusative	cilium	cilia
Ablative	ciliō	ciliīs
Vocative	cilium	cilia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• ciliāris
• intercilium
• supercilium

Descendants

• Aragonese: zella
• Asturian: ceya
• Catalan: cella
• Dalmatian: čeja
• French: cil
• Friulian: cee
• Galician: cella

• Italian: ciglio
• Occitan: cilha
• Portuguese: celha, cílio
• Romanian: ciliu
• Sardinian: chíciu, chígiu
• Spanish: ceja, cejo
• Venetian: segia, zheja, çéi

References

• “cilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• cilium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016