acinus
English
Etymology
From Latin acinus (“grape, grape-stone”); the histopathologic sense comes figuratively from the fancied resemblance (on microscopy) of acinic cells (acinar cells) to bunches of drupelets, berries, or grapes.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈæsɪnəs/
Noun
acinus (plural acini)
- (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- Coordinate term: vesicle
- (botany) A grape-stone.
- (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.
- 1828, Jones 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 […]
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From aciēs (“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ki.nus/, [ˈäkɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.t͡ʃi.nus/, [ˈäːt͡ʃinus]
Noun
acinus m (genitive acinī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | acinus | acinī |
Genitive | acinī | acinōrum |
Dative | acinō | acinīs |
Accusative | acinum | acinōs |
Ablative | acinō | acinīs |
Vocative | acine | acinī |
Derived terms
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- acinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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