Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Perfect passive participle of cingō.

Participle edit

cinctus (feminine cincta, neuter cinctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. surrounded, encircled, having been surrounded
  2. wreathed, crowned, having been crowned
  3. girded, having been girded
  4. bordered, enclosed, having been enclosed
Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cinctus cincta cinctum cinctī cinctae cincta
Genitive cinctī cinctae cinctī cinctōrum cinctārum cinctōrum
Dative cinctō cinctō cinctīs
Accusative cinctum cinctam cinctum cinctōs cinctās cincta
Ablative cinctō cinctā cinctō cinctīs
Vocative cincte cincta cinctum cinctī cinctae cincta
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
  • Aromanian: tsimtu
  • Catalan: cint
  • French: ceint
  • Occitan: cench
  • Italian: cinto

Etymology 2 edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

cinctus m (genitive cinctūs); fourth declension

  1. girdle, belt, cinch
    Synonyms: cingulum, zōna
Declension edit

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cinctus cinctūs
Genitive cinctūs cinctuum
Dative cinctuī cinctibus
Accusative cinctum cinctūs
Ablative cinctū cinctibus
Vocative cinctus cinctūs
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit

(All via the late variant cinctum n, plural cincta.)

References edit

  • cinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cinctus 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)
  • cinctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • cinctus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers