cinctus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkiːnk.tus/, [ˈkiːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃink.tus/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋkt̪us]
• It is commonly assumed that vowels were regularly lengthened before /nkt/, as well as before /ns/ or /nf/. The spelling ⟨CꟾNCTUS⟩ with long i is attested inscriptionally. Romance descendants provide evidence of a pronunciation with a short vowel, which could have been formed as a result of analogical leveling with the present stem; compare pēnsō and the analogical use of a diphthong in Romance forms such as pienso.

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of cingō.

Participle

cīnctus (feminine cīncta, neuter cīnctum); 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

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cīnctus	cīncta	cīnctum		cīnctī	cīnctae	cīncta
genitive	cīnctī	cīnctae	cīnctī		cīnctōrum	cīnctārum	cīnctōrum
dative	cīnctō	cīnctae	cīnctō		cīnctīs
accusative	cīnctum	cīnctam	cīnctum		cīnctōs	cīnctās	cīncta
ablative	cīnctō	cīnctā	cīnctō		cīnctīs
vocative	cīncte	cīncta	cīnctum		cīnctī	cīnctae	cīncta

Derived terms

• bicīnctus
• cīncta

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

From cingō +‎ -tus.

Alternative forms

• cīnctum (Late Latin)

Noun

cīnctus m (genitive cīnctūs); fourth declension

1. girdle, belt, cinch

   Synonyms: cingulum, zōna

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cīnctus	cīnctūs
genitive	cīnctūs	cīnctuum
dative	cīnctuī	cīnctibus
accusative	cīnctum	cīnctūs
ablative	cīnctū	cīnctibus
vocative	cīnctus	cīnctūs

Derived terms

• cīnctus Gabīnus

Related terms

• cīnctūra

Descendants

(All via the late variant cīnctum n, plural cīncta.)

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: cinto, cinta
  • Portuguese: cinto, cinta
  • Spanish: cinto, cinta
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cinta
  • Occitan: cinta, cencha
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: cente
  • Lombard: cinta
  • Romansch: tschinta
  • Venetan: sento, senta
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cinto, cinta
    • →? Sardinian: cintu, chintzu

Further reading

• “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