cynanche

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cynanchē, from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kŭnắnkhē, “a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat”). Doublet of quinsy.

Noun

cynanche (plural cynanches)

  1. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kŭnắnkhē).

Pronunciation

Noun

cynanchē f (genitive cynanchēs); first declension

  1. (Late Latin, medicine) an inflammation of the throat, which caused the tongue to be thrust out

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

singular plural
nominative cynanchē cynanchae
genitive cynanchēs cynanchārum
dative cynanchae cynanchīs
accusative cynanchēn cynanchās
ablative cynanchē cynanchīs
vocative cynanchē cynanchae

Descendants

  • English: cynanche

References

  • “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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