cingulum

Borrowed from Latin cingulum (“girdle”), from cingō (“to gird”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡjələm/

cingulum (plural cingula or cinguli)

1. The girdle of an alb.
2. (neuroanatomy) A collection of white matter fibers projecting from the cingulate gyrus to the entorhinal cortex in the brain, allowing for communication between components of the limbic system.
3. (anatomy) A ridge that girdles the base of an upper molar tooth.
4. (zoology) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.
5. (zoology) The clitellus of earthworms.

• cingulumotomy
• ectocingulum
• hypocingulum
• metacingulum
• paracingulum
• postcingulum
• precingulum

• cingulid

• glucinum

From cingō (“to surround, encompass; gird”) +‎ -ulum (instrument noun suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkin.ɡu.lum/, [ˈkɪŋɡʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡu.lum/, [ˈt͡ʃiŋɡulum]

cingulum n (genitive cingulī); second declension

1. A girdle which encircles the hips; zone, belt; sword-belt; sash.

   Synonyms: cestus, cinctūra, cinctus, zōna

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.31.24:

     sindonem fēcit et vēndidit et cingulum trādidit Chananeō

     She made fine linen, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite. (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

2. (figuratively) A girdle of the earth; zone.

   Synonym: circulus

Often found as a plurale tantum:

• 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid I.492:

  aurea subnectens exsertae cingula mammae

  her golden girdle fastened beneath her exposed breasts

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• cingillum

Many via the plural cingula.

• “cingulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cingulum 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)
• cingulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cingulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cingulum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “cingulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

cingulum n (definite singular cingulumet, indefinite plural cingulum, definite plural cinguluma)

1. cingulum