cincinnus

English

A cincinnus viewed from above (left) and laterally (right)

Alternative forms

• cicinnus

Etymology

From Latin cincinnus (“a lock of hair”)

Noun

cincinnus (plural cincinni)

1. (botany), a type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῐ́κῐννος (kíkinnos), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kinˈkin.nus/, [kɪŋˈkɪn.nʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃin.nus/, [t͡ʃin̠ʲˈt͡ʃin.nus]

Noun

cincinnus m (genitive cincinnī); second declension

1. a curled lock of hair

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cincinnus	cincinnī
Genitive	cincinnī	cincinnōrum
Dative	cincinnō	cincinnīs
Accusative	cincinnum	cincinnōs
Ablative	cincinnō	cincinnīs
Vocative	cincinne	cincinnī

Derived terms

• cincinnātus

Descendants

• English: cincinnus
• Galician: cenceno
• Italian: cincinno

References

• cincinnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cincinnus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cincinnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cincinnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cincinnus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers