echinus

From Latin echīnus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).

• Rhymes: -aɪnəs

echinus (plural echinuses or echini)

1. A sea urchin.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:

     'It is a sea-urchin - a common echinus. Nature repeats itself in many forms regardless of the size. This echinus is a model, a prototype, of the world.'

2. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
3. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
4. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

• Su-ch'ien

From Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkʰiː.nus/, [ɛˈkʰiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈki.nus/, [eˈkiːnus]

echīnus m (genitive echīnī); second declension

1. a sea urchin, especially the edible kind
2. a hedgehog
3. the prickly husk of a chestnut
4. a rinsing bowl, especially of copper
5. (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column

Second-declension noun.

• (hedgehog): ērināceus

• echīnātus
• echīnomētrae

• Translingual: Echinus
• → English: echinus
• Spanish: equino

• “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “echinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “echinus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “echinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “echinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “echinus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin