crinis

From Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Latin crista, crispus (“curly”) and Albanian krip.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkriː.nis/, [ˈkriː.nɪs]

crīnis m (genitive crīnis); third declension

1. hair of the head, lock of hair, plume
2. tail of a comet

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• coma

• crīnālis
• crīniger
• crīniō

• French: crin
• Italian: crine
• Norman: crîn
• Portuguese: crina
• Spanish: crin

• crinis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crinis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crinis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• crinis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
    
  • with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
    
• crinis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• crinis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin