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cirrus

Etymology

From Latin cirrus (“curl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪɹəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪɹəs

Noun

cirrus (plural cirri)

1. (botany) A tendril.
2. (zoology) A thin tendril-like appendage.
3. (meteorology) A principal high-level cloud type characterised by white, delicate filaments or wisps, of white (or mostly white) patches, or of narrow bands, found at an altitude of above 7000 metres.

Derived terms

• cirral

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin cirrus. Doublet of cerro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsi.rus]

Noun

cirrus m (invariable)

1. cirrus (cloud)

Further reading

• “cirrus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cirrus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “cirrus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cirrus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

From New Latin cirrus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsirːus/, [ˈs̠irːus̠]
• Syllabification^(key): cir‧rus

Noun

cirrus

1. cirrus (type of cloud)

Declension

Synonyms

• cirruspilvi
• untuvapilvi

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cirrus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Latin

Etymology

The origin is unknown. There are no definitive cognates in other Indo-European languages. Compare Proto-Germanic *hērą (“hair”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkir.rus/, [ˈkɪrːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃir.rus/, [ˈt͡ʃirːus]

Noun

cirrus m (genitive cirrī); second declension

1. a curl
2. the fringe of clothes
3. the tentacle of an octopus
4. the mane, especially the forelock, of a horse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: cerro
• Galician: cerro
• Italian: cirro
• Portuguese: cerro
• Spanish: cerro

References

• “cirrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cirrus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cirrus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cirrus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cirrus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cirrus (“curl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sir.rus/
• Rhymes: -irrus
• Syllabification: cir‧rus

Noun

cirrus m animal

1. (meteorology) cirrus (a type of cloud)

   Synonym: chmura pierzasta

Declension

Further reading

• cirrus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• cirrus in Polish dictionaries at PWN