cicatrix

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NounEdit

cicatrix (plural cicatrixes or cicatrices)

1. A scar that remains after the development of new tissue over a recovering wound or sore (also used figuratively).
   • 1938, Herbert Xavier, Capricornia, Chapter II, p. 21,

     He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems of cicatrix.

TranslationsEdit

scar that remains after the development of new tissue — see scar

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unknown etymology.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkaː.triːks/, [kɪˈkaː.triːks]

NounEdit

cicātrīx f (genitive cicātrīcis); third declension

1. scar, bruise, incision

InflectionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cicātrīx	cicātrīcēs
genitive	cicātrīcis	cicātrīcum
dative	cicātrīcī	cicātrīcibus
accusative	cicātrīcem	cicātrīcēs
ablative	cicātrīce	cicātrīcibus
vocative	cicātrīx	cicātrīcēs

Related termsEdit

• cicātrīcōsus

DescendantsEdit

• English: cicatrix, cicatrice
• Catalan: cicatriu
• French: cicatrice
• Italian: cicatrice

• Portuguese: cicatriz
• Romanian: cicatrice
• Spanish: cicatriz

ReferencesEdit

• cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cicatrix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cicatrix” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
    
  • to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam