cincinnus

• cicinnus

From Latin cincinnus (“a lock of hair”).

cincinnus (plural cincinni)

1. (botany) A type of monochasium on which the successive axes arise alternately in respect to the preceding one; a scorpioid cyme.

From Ancient Greek κῐ́κῐννος (kĭ́kĭnnos). For sense two, compare calamistrum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪŋˈkɪn.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃin̠ʲˈt͡ʃin.nus]

cincinnus m (genitive cincinnī); second declension

1. a curled lock of hair
2. (figuratively) an oratorical ornament too artificial, excessive or elaborate

   Synonyms: calamister, calamistrum

Second-declension noun.

• cincinnātus

• English: cincinnus
• Galician: cenceno
• Italian: cincinno
• Portuguese: cenceno, çanceno

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