cerintha

== Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek κερίνθη (kerínthē) (not in lexicons), from κηρός (kērós, “wax”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), from the belief that bees extracted wax from the blossoms to make their honeycombs. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [keːˈrɪn.tʰa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈrin.ta] === Noun === cērintha f (genitive cērinthae); first declension (botany) cerinthe, honeywort ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “cerintha”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cerintha”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers