cincinnus

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

Alternative forms
  • cicinnus

Etymology

From 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.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῐ́κῐννος (kíkinnos), from Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

Pronunciation

Noun

cincinnus m (genitive cincinnī); second declension

  1. a curled lock of hair

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cincinnus cincinnī
Genitive cincinnī cincinnōrum
Dative cincinnō cincinnīs
Accusative cincinnum cincinnōs
Ablative cincinnō cincinnīs
Vocative cincinne cincinnī

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 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
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