lemniscus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin lēmniscus (“pendent ribbon”), from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos), from Λῆμνος (Lêmnos, “a Greek island Lemnos”) +‎ -ίσκος (-ískos, “noun-forming diminutive suffix”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /lɛmˈnɪ.skəs/ Rhymes: -ɪskəs === Noun === lemniscus (plural lemniscuses or lemnisci) (zoology) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala. A woollen fillet attached to the back of crowns, diadems, etc. (anatomy) A ribbon of fibers, especially of cerebral white nerve fibers. ==== Derived terms ==== medial lemniscus ==== Related terms ==== lemniscata == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos, “woollen fillet, ribbon”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫeːmˈnɪs.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lemˈnis.kus] === Noun === lēmniscus m (genitive lēmniscī); second declension A pendent ribbon ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== lēmniscātus ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: lemnisc Galician: lemnisco Italian: lemnisco Portuguese: lemnisco Spanish: lemnisco === References === “lemniscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lemniscus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “lemniscus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “lemniscus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “lemniscus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin