cinctus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkiːŋk.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃiŋk.tus] It is commonly assumed that vowels were regularly lengthened before [nkt], as well as before [ns] and [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 surrounded, encircled, having been surrounded wreathed, crowned, having been crowned girded, having been girded bordered, enclosed, having been enclosed ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== 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 girdle, belt, cinch Synonyms: cingulum, zōna ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== cīnctūra ===== Descendants ===== (All via the late variant cīnctum n, plural cīncta.) === References === === 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, 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