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”), Sanskrit कण (kaṇa, “particle, small grain of dust or rice”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈki.nis/, [ˈkɪnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.nis/, [ˈt͡ʃiːnis]

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

Related terms

• cinefactus
• cinerāceus
• cinerārius
• cinerēscō
• cinereus
• cinericius
• cinerōsus
• ciniflō
• concinerātus
• dēcinerātus
• dēcinerēscō
• succinerīcius

Descendants

From cinis, cinerem:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cenere
  • Neapolitan: cennere, cendre, cegnere
  • Sicilian: cìnniri

    Calabrese: cìnnara, cìnnari

  • Tuscan and Central Italian: cenere, cendere
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: sendra, sanar
  • Ligurian: çénie, çènia, çènre, çène
  • Lombard: sendra, sener, sender
  • Piedmontese: sënner, sënre, sëner, sëndre
  • Romagnol: sendre, sendra
  • Romansch: tschendra
  • Venetan: sènare
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: cindra
  • Old French: cendre
    • Bourguignon: çarre
    • French: cendre
    • Lorrain: cent
    • Norman: chendre (Jersey, Guernsey)
    • Picard: chaine
    • Walloon: cinde
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cendra, cenra, cendre
  • Old Occitan: cendre, cenre
    • Occitan: cendre, cendra (most dialects)

      Gascon: céner, cena, cièr

      Languedocien: cenre

      Vivaro-Alpine: cindra

    • → Old Spanish: cendra

From cinisiam or cinusiam:

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cinushi / cinushe, tsinushã
  • Romanian: cenușă
• Dalmatian:
  • canaisa
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: cianugia
  • Italian: cinigia
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: cinise
  • Piedmontese: sënisia, sinisia
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cenisa
  • Occitan: cenisa

    ⇒ Limousin: cenís

    ⇒ Vivaro-Alpine: chanís

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: ceniza
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cĩisa
    • Galician: cinza, cinsa
    • Portuguese: cinza
      • Kabuverdianu: sinza
      • Guinea-Bissau Creole: sinsa
  • Spanish: ceniza
    • Papiamentu: shinishi
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: chigina, chisina

See also

• favīlla

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