Latin

Noun

crīnis m ‎(genitive crīnis); third declension

1. hair of the head, lock of hair, plume
2. tail of a comet

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Synonyms

• coma

Related terms

• crīnālis
• crīniger
• crīniō

Descendants

• French: crin
• Italian: crine
• Norman: crîn
• Portuguese: crina
• Spanish: crin

References

• crinis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• crinis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• CRINIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “crinis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to grow one's hair, beard long: promittere crinem, barbam
    
  • with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
    
• crinis in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• crinis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin