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cincture

Meaninga belt

Common meaning: a belt or girdle

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√KAK‘surround, gird’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 42, p. 731 · scan
  2. Latincingō, cīnxī, cīnctum‘to put a belt round, encircle’
  3. Englishcincture‘a belt or girdle’ · today

cinct also in: precinctsuccinct

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin cingō ‘to put a belt round, encircle’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry cingō, p. 332 · dictionary scan

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Related words

precinctsuccinct

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