English

Noun

acinus ‎(plural acini)

1. (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
2. (botany) A grape-stone.
3. (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
   • Richard Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy

     Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From aciēs ‎(“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ki.nus/, [ˈa.kɪ.nʊs]

Noun

acinus m ‎(genitive acinī); second declension

1. a berry, especially the grape.
2. the seed of a berry.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• dūracinus

Descendants

• English: acinus
• Irish: aicíneas
• Italian: acino
• Portuguese: ácino

References

• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ACINUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.