crinis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Latin crista, crispus (“curly”) and Albanian krip.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkriː.nis/, [ˈkriːnɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkri.nis/, [ˈkriːnis]
Noun edit
crīnis m (genitive crīnis); third declension
- hair of the head, lock of hair, plume
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.698-699:
- Nōndum illī flāvum Prōserpina vertice crīnem
abstulerat, Stygiōque caput damnāverat Orcō.- Proserpina had not yet taken that lock of blonde hair from [Dido’s] head, [nor] condemned [the queen’s] life to Stygian Orcus.
(Frieze, Henry [1876], Virgil’s Aeneid, 2nd ed., pg 463: “A lock of hair is cut from the forehead of the dying as a sign of dedication to the gods below.”)
- Proserpina had not yet taken that lock of blonde hair from [Dido’s] head, [nor] condemned [the queen’s] life to Stygian Orcus.
- Nōndum illī flāvum Prōserpina vertice crīnem
- tail of a comet
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | crīnis | crīnēs |
| Genitive | crīnis | crīnium |
| Dative | crīnī | crīnibus |
| Accusative | crīnem | crīnēs crīnīs |
| Ablative | crīne | crīnibus |
| Vocative | crīnis | crīnēs |
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: crin
- French: crin
- Galician: crina; ⇒ crecha ( < *crinicula)
- Italian: crine
- Norman: crîn
- Portuguese: crina
- Spanish: crin
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- crinis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
- with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
- to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
- “crinis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman 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