cernuus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɛr.nu.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛr.nu.us] === Adjective === cernuus (feminine cernua, neuter cernuum); first/second-declension adjective with the face turned towards the earth, inclined forwards, stooping or bowing forwards Tantum ergo Sacramentum / Veneremur cernui (Tantum Ergo, Thomas Aquinas) Therefore, so great a Sacrament / Let us, bowed down, venerate (Vergilian) falling over Equus cernuus (Aeneid liber X 894) falling horse ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== cernuō === References === “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "cernuus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “cernuus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “cernuus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “cernuus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin