cirrus
English
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈsɪɹəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪɹəs
Noun
editcirrus (plural cirri)
- (botany) A tendril.
- (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
- (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.
- 1952, Ernest Hemingway, The old man and the sea, Harper Perennial classics, published 2014, page 282:
- He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above where the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 15:
- The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.
Derived terms
editTranslations
edittendril
cloud
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Catalan
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin cirrus. Doublet of cerro.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcirrus m (invariable)
- (botany) cirrus, tendril
- Synonym: circell
- (zoology) cirrus (tendril-like appendage)
- (meteorology) cirrus (cloud)
Further reading
edit- “cirrus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cirrus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cirrus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cirrus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcirrus
- cirrus (type of cloud)
Declension
editInflection of cirrus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | cirrus | cirrukset | |
genitive | cirruksen | cirrusten cirruksien | |
partitive | cirrusta | cirruksia | |
illative | cirrukseen | cirruksiin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | cirrus | cirrukset | |
accusative | nom. | cirrus | cirrukset |
gen. | cirruksen | ||
genitive | cirruksen | cirrusten cirruksien | |
partitive | cirrusta | cirruksia | |
inessive | cirruksessa | cirruksissa | |
elative | cirruksesta | cirruksista | |
illative | cirrukseen | cirruksiin | |
adessive | cirruksella | cirruksilla | |
ablative | cirrukselta | cirruksilta | |
allative | cirrukselle | cirruksille | |
essive | cirruksena | cirruksina | |
translative | cirrukseksi | cirruksiksi | |
abessive | cirruksetta | cirruksitta | |
instructive | — | cirruksin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editcompounds
Further reading
edit- “cirrus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Latin
editEtymology
editThe origin is unknown. There are no definitive cognates in other Indo-European languages. Compare Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkir.rus/, [ˈkɪrːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.rus/, [ˈt͡ʃirːus]
Noun
editcirrus m (genitive cirrī); second declension
- a curl
- the fringe of clothes
- the tentacle of an octopus
- the mane, especially the forelock, of a horse
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | cirrus | cirrī |
Genitive | cirrī | cirrōrum |
Dative | cirrō | cirrīs |
Accusative | cirrum | cirrōs |
Ablative | cirrō | cirrīs |
Vocative | cirre | cirrī |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “cirrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cirrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cirrus 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)
- “cirrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cirrus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Polish
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin cirrus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcirrus m animal
- (meteorology) cirrus (type of cloud)
- Synonym: chmura pierzasta
Declension
editDeclension of cirrus
Further reading
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- en:Botany
- en:Zoology
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- ca:Botany
- ca:Zoology
- ca:Meteorology
- ca:Animal body parts
- ca:Clouds
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- la:Hair
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- pl:Meteorology
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