cingo
Galician
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡo/
- Rhymes: -inɡo
- Hyphenation: cìn‧go
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Italic *keng-, from a Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to gird, tie”). Possibly related to Lithuanian kinkýti (“to bridle horses”) and Sanskrit कञ्च् (kañc, “to bind”), कञ्चुक (kañcuka, “armor”); however, these terms present phonetic problems regarding their cognacy.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkin.ɡoː/, [ˈkɪŋɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡo/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋɡo]
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cingo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
- to be surrounded by the superior force of the enemy: multitudine hostium cingi
- to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114
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