Latin

Adjective

cernuus m ‎(feminine cernua, neuter cernuum); first/second declension

1. with the face turned towards the earth, inclined forwards, stooping or bowing forwards
2. (Vergilian) falling over

   Equus cernuus (Aeneid liber X 894)

   falling horse

3. (Late Latin) bowed (forwards)

   Veneremur cernui (Tantum Ergo, Thomas Aquinas)

   Let us venerate bowed

Inflection

First/second declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cernuus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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