echinus
See also: Echinus
English
Etymology
From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).
Noun
echinus (plural echinuses or echini)
- A sea urchin.
- (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
- (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
- (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “echinus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /eˈkʰiː.nus/, [ɛˈkʰiːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈki.nus/, [eˈkiːnus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Noun
echīnus m (genitive echīnī); second declension
- a sea urchin, especially the edible kind
- a hedgehog
- the prickly husk of a chestnut
- a rinsing bowl, especially of copper
- (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | echīnus | echīnī |
Genitive | echīnī | echīnōrum |
Dative | echīnō | echīnīs |
Accusative | echīnum | echīnōs |
Ablative | echīnō | echīnīs |
Vocative | echīne | echīnī |
Synonyms
- (hedgehog): ērināceus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- echinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “echinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “echinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “echinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “echinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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