crinitus

Latin

Etymology

From crīnis (“hair”) +‎ -ītus (“-ed”), possibly originally formed by combining an instrumental singular case-form ending in *-ih₁ +‎ -tus.[1] In form, the word can be interpreted as a participle of a fourth-conjugation verb crīniō (“to cover, as if with hair”); as this is rare and usually used only in the sense of foliage, the verb is probably a back-formation from the adjective.

Pronunciation

Adjective

crīnītus (feminine crīnīta, neuter crīnītum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. hairy
  2. long-haired

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative crīnītus crīnīta crīnītum crīnītī crīnītae crīnīta
Genitive crīnītī crīnītae crīnītī crīnītōrum crīnītārum crīnītōrum
Dative crīnītō crīnītō crīnītīs
Accusative crīnītum crīnītam crīnītum crīnītōs crīnītās crīnīta
Ablative crīnītō crīnītā crīnītō crīnītīs
Vocative crīnīte crīnīta crīnītum crīnītī crīnītae crīnīta
  • crīnio

References
  1. Fortson, B. W., IV. (2020). "Towards an assessment of decasuative derivation in Indo-European," Indo-European Linguistics, 8(1), 46-109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10004

Further reading
  • “crinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “crinitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • crinitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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