crine – Italian noun declension

Italian noun forms of crine

Noun: crine
Gender: m Hyphenation: crì‧ne
Singular mcrine
Plural mcrini

Sample Sentences

  • I crini sien piani, e pochi (The hairs should be straight, and few) [13ᵗʰ century, “Del conoscimento della bellezza de’ Cavalli”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 405:]
  • tutto spogliata di vestimenti, e’ crini del capo diligentemente scrinati (Completely stripped of clothes, and [with] diligently styled hair) [1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle], published 1991:]
  • Con rabbuffata barba e tristo crine (With ruffled beard and messed-up hair) [c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida, section 30, page 381:]
  • ornare ella si appresta ¶ dimani, al dí di festa, il petto e il crine (She prepares to ornate, tomorrow, on the day of the festival, the chest and the hair) [1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Il sabato del villaggio”, in Canti^(https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Canti_(Leopardi_-_Donati).djvu), Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 95:]
  • Tal sovente dal ciel divelta cade ¶ Notturna stella, e trascorrendo lascia ¶ Dopo sè lungo e luminoso il crine. (Like that, a night star torn from the sky often falls, and, passing, it leaves after itself long and bright tail.) [1581, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid], Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro V, page 243:]
  • In quella parte del giovanetto anno ¶ che ’l sole i crin sotto l'Aquario tempra (In that part of the young year where the Sun makes the rays warm under the Aquarius) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto ⅩⅩⅣ, page 355, lines 1–3:]

Etymology

From Latin crīnis, from Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kre-i-s-, extension of the root *(s)ker- (“to turn; to bend”). See: Latin Nouns 'crīnis'.

Verbs referencing "crine"

English Nouns crine.

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