cincinnus

English

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

Alternative forms

• cicinnus

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /kinˈkin.nus/, [kɪŋˈkɪnːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃinˈt͡ʃin.nus/, [t͡ʃin̠ʲˈt͡ʃinːus]

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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