cingo

Galician

Verb

cingo

first-person singular present indicative of cinguir

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡo/
Rhymes: -inɡo
Hyphenation: cìn‧go

Verb

cingo

first-person singular present indicative of cingere

Anagrams

Cigno, cigno, cogni, congi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *kenk-.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkin.ɡoː/, [ˈkɪŋɡoː]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡo/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋɡo]

Verb

cingō (present infinitive cingere, perfect active cinxī, supine cinctum); third conjugation

to surround, circle, ring, encircle
to gird on; to crown or garland

Conjugation

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Derived terms

Descendants

Aromanian: tsingu, tsindziri
Asturian: ciñir, cinguir, cincer
Catalan: cenyir
French: ceindre
Friulian: cenzi, cengi
Galician: cinguir
Italian: cingere
Norman: cheindre (Jersey)
Occitan: cénher, cénger
Portuguese: cingir
Romanian: cinge, cingere
Sardinian: chinghere
Spanish: ceñir

References

“cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
cingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
- to be surrounded by the superior force of the enemy: multitudine hostium cingi

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