cinis

See also: -cinis

Latin

Alternative forms

  • ciner (m or f), cinus (n, uncommon)
  • cines, cenis (Late Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”). Akin to Ancient Greek κόνις (kónis, “dust, ash”),[1] Sanskrit कण (kaṇa, “particle, small grain of dust or rice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cinis m or f (genitive cineris); third declension

  1. cold ashes
  2. (figuratively) ruins of a burned city

Usage notes

The word cinis is used for cold, heavy ashes, while favilla is used for glowing, light ashes (cinders).

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cinis cinerēs
genitive cineris cinerum
dative cinerī cineribus
accusative cinerem cinerēs
ablative cinere cineribus
vocative cinis cinerēs

Descendants

From cinis, cinerem:

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: cenere
    • Neapolitan: cennere, cendre, cegnere
    • Sicilian: cìnniri
      Calabrese: cìnnara, cìnnari
    • Tuscan and Central Italian: cenere, cendere
    • Venetan: sènare
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: sendra, sanar
    • Ligurian: çénie, çènia, çènre, çène
    • Lombard: sendra, sener, sender
    • Piedmontese: sënner, sënre, sëner, sëndre
    • Romagnol: sendre, sendra
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:

From cinisiam or cinusiam:

See also

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “cinis, -eris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115

Further reading

  • “cinis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “cinis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "cinis", 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)
  • cinis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Volapük

Noun

cinis

  1. accusative plural of cin
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