cicatrix

English

Etymology

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.kəˌtɹɪks/, /sɪˈkeɪ.tɹɪks/
• Hyphenation: cic‧a‧trix

Noun

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.

Translations

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

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown etymology, possibly from a substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kiˈkaː.triːks/, [kɪˈkaː.t̪ɾiːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈka.triks/, [t͡ʃiˈkaː.t̪riks]

Noun

cicātrīx f (genitive cicātrīcis); third declension

1. scar, bruise, incision

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cicātrīx	cicātrīcēs
Genitive	cicātrīcis	cicātrīcum
Dative	cicātrīcī	cicātrīcibus
Accusative	cicātrīcem	cicātrīcēs
Ablative	cicātrīce	cicātrīcibus
Vocative	cicātrīx	cicātrīcēs

Derived terms

• cicātrīcula
• cicātrīcor
• cicātrīcōsus

Descendants

• English: cicatrix, cicatrice
• Catalan: cicatriu
• French: cicatrice
• Italian: cicatrice
• Portuguese: cicatriz
• Romanian: cicatrice
• Spanish: cicatriz

References

• 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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