licinus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin *lecinos, from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”). See also Sanskrit रुग्ण (rugṇá, “bent, broken”), Ancient Greek λύγος (lúgos) and λοξός (loxós, “slanting, crosswise”), Lithuanian lugnas, and Old Norse lykna.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ki.nus/, [ˈlʲɪkɪnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.t͡ʃi.nus/, [ˈliːt͡ʃinus]

Adjective

licinus (feminine licina, neuter licinum); first/second-declension adjective

1. bent or turned upward

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	licinus	licina	licinum		licinī	licinae	licina
Genitive	licinī	licinae	licinī		licinōrum	licinārum	licinōrum
Dative	licinō		licinō		licinīs
Accusative	licinum	licinam	licinum		licinōs	licinās	licina
Ablative	licinō	licinā	licinō		licinīs
Vocative	licine	licina	licinum		licinī	licinae	licina

Derived terms

• Licinus
• relicinus

References

• “licinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• licinus 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)
• licinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “licinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “licinus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray