Noun: cinnabar
| Singular | cinnabar |
| Plural | cinnabars |
Sample Sentences
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There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies. [2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:]
Nouns inflected like cinnabar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
First attested in the mid-15th century. From Middle English cynabare, from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), of unknown origin. See: Middle English Nouns '
cynabare', Latin Nouns '
cinnabaris', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κιννάβαρι'.
Verbs referencing "cinnabar"
Russian Nouns
киноварь, Ukrainian Nouns
кіновар.