echinus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos). === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aɪnəs === Noun === echinus (plural echinuses or echini) A sea urchin. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital. === Anagrams === Su-ch'ien == Latin == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈkʰiː.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈkiː.nus] === Noun === echīnus m (genitive echīnī); second declension a sea urchin, especially the edible kind a hedgehog the prickly husk of a chestnut a rinsing bowl, especially of copper (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (hedgehog): ērināceus ==== Derived terms ==== echīnātus echīnomētrae ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Echinus → English: echinus Spanish: equino === References === “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “echinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “echinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2] “echinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “echinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly “echinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin