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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to turn, bend). Cognate with Latin crista, crispus (curly) and Albanian krip.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crīnis m (genitive crīnis); third declension

  1. 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.”)
  2. tail of a comet

Declension

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Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative crīnis crīnēs
genitive crīnis crīnium
dative crīnī crīnibus
accusative crīnem crīnēs
crīnīs
ablative crīne crīnibus
vocative crīnis crīnēs

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Asturian: clin, clina
  • Catalan: crin
  • French: crin
  • Galician: crina; crecha ( < *crinicula)
  • Italian: crine
  • Norman: crîn
  • Portuguese: crina
  • Spanish: crin

References

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  • 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
  • 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
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