cinnabaris

Latin

Alternative forms

• cinnabari n (Late Latin)
• cinnabrium (after antiquity in the cinnabar sense)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪnˈna.ba.rɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃinˈnaː.ba.ris]

Noun

cinnabaris f (genitive cinnabaris); third declension)

1. dragon's blood (resin, the colour of cinnabar)
2. (in New Latin at least) cinnabar

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	cinnabaris	cinnabarēs
genitive	cinnabaris	cinnabarium
dative	cinnabarī	cinnabaribus
accusative	cinnabarem cinnabarim	cinnabarēs cinnabarīs
ablative	cinnabare cinnabarī	cinnabaribus
vocative	cinnabaris	cinnabarēs

Descendants

• Catalan: cinabri
• Old French: cinabre, cinobre, cenobre
  • French: cinabre, cinnabre, cinobre, cinnobre (obsolete)
  • → Middle Dutch: cinoper, cinopel, cynoper, sinoper, zinopel, sinopel (apparently confused with the dye sinople)
  • → English: cinnabar
  • → Middle High German: zinober
    • German: Zinnober
      • → Danish: cinnober
      • → Finnish: sinooperi
      • → Norwegian: sinober
      • → Swedish: cinnober
    • → Polish: cynober
• Galician: cinabrio
• Italian: cinabro
• Portuguese: cinábrio
• Spanish: cinabrio

References

• “cinnabaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cinnabaris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.