cnasonae

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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek *κνᾶσων (*knâsōn), from κνάω (knáō, scrape).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cnāsōnae f pl (genitive cnāsōnārum); first declension (plural only)

  1. A kind of needle used to scratch the head

Declension

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First-declension noun, plural only.

Case Plural
Nominative cnāsōnae
Genitive cnāsōnārum
Dative cnāsōnīs
Accusative cnāsōnās
Ablative cnāsōnīs
Vocative cnāsōnae

References

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  • cnasonas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cnasonae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cnasonas”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 129