Noun: orcin
| Singular | orcin |
| Plural | orcins |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like orcin
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
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
5. Proto-Italic *auzis
6. Latin auris
7. Proto-Indo-European *-lós
8. Proto-Indo-European *-elós
9. Proto-Italic *-elos
10. Proto-Italic *-kelos
11. Latin -cula
12. Latin auricula
13. Latin ōriculader.
14. Italian oricelloder.
15. Arabic [script needed] ('urjālla)influ.
16. Old Catalan orxellader.
17. Old French orchel
18. French orseilleder.
19. Dutch orseilleder.
20. New Latin orcinader.
21. French orcineder.
22. English orcin
23. From French orcine, from New Latin orcina, from Dutch orseille, from French orseille, from Old French orchel, orseil, from Old Catalan orxella (influenced by dialectal Arabic [script needed] ('urjālla)), from Italian oricello, from Latin ōricilla, diminutive of ōricula (variant of auricula), both diminutives of auris (“ear”)) + illa (a double diminutive suffix) or from auris (“ear”) + cula + illa. The name of the dye was influenced by the visual resemblance of the lichen used in production to a small ear. See: French Nouns '
orcine', French Nouns '
orseille', Italian Nouns '
oricello', Latin Nouns '
ōricilla'.