cinctus

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cingō.

Participle

cinctus (feminine cincta, neuter cinctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. surrounded, encircled, having been surrounded
  2. wreathed, crowned, having been crowned
  3. girded, having been girded
  4. bordered, enclosed, having been enclosed
Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
Descendants
  • Aromanian: tsimtu
  • Catalan: cint
  • French: ceint
  • Occitan: cench
  • Italian: cinto

Alternative forms

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. girdle, belt, cinch
    Synonyms: cingulum, zōna
Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms
  • cinctus Gabīnus
Descendants

(All via the late variant cinctum n, plural cincta.)

References

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