cynanche
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin cynanchē, from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kunánkhē, “a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat”). Doublet of quinsy.
Noun
editcynanche (plural cynanches)
- (medicine) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, attended with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cynanche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kunánkhē).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kyˈnan.kʰeː/, [kʏˈnäŋkʰeː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈnan.ke/, [t͡ʃiˈnäŋke]
Noun
editcynanchē f (genitive cynanchēs); first declension
- (Late Latin, medicine) an inflammation of the throat, which caused the tongue to be thrust out
Declension
editFirst-declension noun (Greek-type).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cynanchē | cynanchae |
Genitive | cynanchēs | cynanchārum |
Dative | cynanchae | cynanchīs |
Accusative | cynanchēn | cynanchās |
Ablative | cynanchē | cynanchīs |
Vocative | cynanchē | cynanchae |
Descendants
edit- English: cynanche
References
edit- “cy̆nanchē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cy̆nanchē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 462/1.
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