adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
crīnītus
crīnītus (feminine crīnīta, neuter crīnītum)
Classical[kriːˈniː.tʊs]Ecclesiastical[kriˈniː.tus]
Meaning
- adjectivehairy
- adjectivelong-haired
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
longōs crīnēs gerēnscrīnītus -a -um — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 24
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | crīnītus | crīnīta | crīnītum |
| genitive | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnītī |
| dative | crīnītō | crīnītae | crīnītō |
| accusative | crīnītum | crīnītam | crīnītum |
| ablative | crīnītō | crīnītā | crīnītō |
| vocative | crīnīte | crīnīta | crīnītum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnīta |
| genitive | crīnītōrum | crīnītārum | crīnītōrum |
| dative | crīnītīs | crīnītīs | crīnītīs |
| accusative | crīnītōs | crīnītās | crīnīta |
| ablative | crīnītīs | crīnītīs | crīnītīs |
| vocative | crīnītī | crīnītae | crīnīta |
crīnītus, a, um, v. crinio, II.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
crīnītus adj.
crinis, covered with hair, hairy, with flowing locks, long - haired: Iopas, V.: draconibus ora, O.: galea triplici iubā, V.
Origins
From crīnis (“hair”) + -ītus (“-ed”), possibly originally formed by combining an instrumental singular case-form ending in *-ih₁ + -tus. 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.