cinnus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Ancient Greek κυκεών (kukeṓn), κόγχος (kónkhos); see congius, concha, and cochlea.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkin.nus/, [ˈkɪnːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.nus/, [ˈt͡ʃinːus]

Noun

cinnus m (genitive cinnī); second declension

1. drink of mixed spelt grain and wine

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cinnus	cinnī
genitive	cinnī	cinnōrum
dative	cinnō	cinnīs
accusative	cinnum	cinnōs
ablative	cinnō	cinnīs
vocative	cinne	cinnī

Etymology 2

Unknown. Attested from ca. 500 CE.

Noun

cinnus m (genitive cinnī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. a kind of facial distortion or grimace; wink; signal made with the eye

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cinnus	cinnī
genitive	cinnī	cinnōrum
dative	cinnō	cinnīs
accusative	cinnum	cinnōs
ablative	cinnō	cinnīs
vocative	cinne	cinnī

Derived terms

• cinnō

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cenno
• North Italian: (all influenced by signum)
  • Emilian: [ˈt͡seɲ]
  • Old Ligurian: cingno
  • Lombard: sengg
  • Piedmontese: [ˈseɲ]
  • Romansch: tschegn
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: cin
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: ceñu
  • Galician: aceno, ceno
  • Spanish: ceño
    • → Portuguese: cenho

References

• “cinnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cinnus 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)
• cinnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.