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5-letter words (3 found)

NISUS,SINUS,SUNIS,

4-letter words (4 found)

SINS,SUNI,SUNS,UNIS,

3-letter words (10 found)

INS,NIS,NUS,SIN,SIS,SUI,SUN,SUS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (6 found)

IN,IS,NU,SI,UN,US,

You can make 23 words from sinus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sinus

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Definitions and meaning of sinus

sinus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus (“a bent surface, curve, hollow”). Doublet of sine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsaɪ.nəs/
  • Rhymes: -aɪnəs

Noun

sinus (plural sinuses)

  1. (anatomy, zootomy) A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
    Hyponyms: ethmoid sinus, frontal sinus, maxillary sinus, paranasal sinus, piriform sinus, Rokitansky-Aschoff sinus, sphenoid sinus
  2. (anatomy) An irregular venous or lymphatic cavity, reservoir, or dilated vessel.
    Hyponyms: carotid sinus, cavernous sinus, coronary sinus, lateral sinus, petrosal sinus, sagittal sinus, sigmoid sinus, straight sinus, transverse sinus, venous sinus
    1. (physiology, attributive) Relating to or denoting the sinoatrial node of the heart or its function of regulating the heartbeat.
  3. (pathology) An abnormal cavity or passage such as a fistula, leading from a deep-seated infection and discharging pus to the surface.
  4. (botany) A rounded notch or depression between two lobes or teeth in the margin of a leaf or petal.
  5. (geography) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
  6. (trigonometry) Synonym of sine.

Derived terms

Translations

References

  • “sinus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “sinus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • Sunis, nisus

Albanian

Noun

sinus m

  1. (trigonometry) sine

Further reading

  • “sinus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
  • “sinus”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1] (in Albanian), 1980

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sinus m (invariable)

  1. sine

Derived terms

  • cosinus

See also

  • tangent
  • cosecant
  • secant
  • cotangent

Further reading

  • “sinus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɪnus]
  • Hyphenation: si‧nus

Noun

sinus m inan

  1. (trigonometry) sine
  2. (anatomy) sinus

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • sinus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • sinus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • sinus in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Noun

sinus c (singular definite sinussen, plural indefinite sinusser)

  1. (geometry) sine

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: si‧nus

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Noun

sinus m (plural sinussen, diminutive sinusje n)

  1. (trigonometry) sine
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: sinus
  • → Papiamentu: sinùs

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Noun

sinus m (plural sinussen, diminutive sinusje n)

  1. sinus
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: sinus

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus. Doublet of sein.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /si.nys/

Noun

sinus m (plural sinus)

  1. (anatomy) sinus
  2. (trigonometry) sine

See also

  • cosécante
  • cosinus
  • cotangente
  • sécante
  • tangente

Further reading

  • “sinus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sinus, from Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsinʊs]
  • Rhymes: -nʊs, -ʊs, -s
  • Hyphenation: si‧nus

Noun

sinus (first-person possessive sinusku, second-person possessive sinusmu, third-person possessive sinusnya)

  1. sinus:
    1. (anatomy) a pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
    2. (pathology) an abnormal cavity or passage such as a fistula, leading from a deep-seated infection and discharging pus to the surface.
  2. (trigonometry) sine: in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “sinus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sinos; akin to Albanian gji (“breast, bosom”).

The mathematical sense ‘chord of an arc, sine’ was introduced in the 12th century by Gherardo of Cremona as a semantic loan from Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “chord, sine”) (ultimately a loan from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “bowstring”)) by confusion with جَيْب (jayb, “bosom, fold in a garment”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.nus/, [ˈs̠ɪnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.nus/, [ˈsiːnus]

Noun

sinus m (genitive sinūs); fourth declension

  1. (chiefly poetic) a bent surface; a curve, fold, hollow
  2. (literal) the hanging fold of a toga over the breast; a pocket, lap
    Synonym: gremium
    1. (transferred sense)
      1. a purse, money, which was carried in the bosom of the toga
      2. (poetic) a garment
      3. the bosom, breast
        Synonym: pectus
    2. (figurative)
      1. the bosom for love, protection, asylum
      2. the interior, inmost part of a thing
      3. a power, possession of someone
      4. a hiding place, place of concealment; a secret feeling
  3. a gulf, bay, bight
    1. the land lying on or a point of land that helps to form a gulf
    2. a basin, hollow, valley
    3. (Medieval Latin) a fjord
  4. (Medieval Latin, mathematics) the chord of an arc; a sine
Inflection

Fourth-declension noun.

Quotations

Aeneid (Pūblius Vergilius Marō) lines 1.160–161: Latin: quibus omnis ab altō // frangitus inque sinūs scindit sēsē͡ unda reductōs. English: on which all the waves from the deep are broken and it splits itself into receeding ripples.

Derived terms
  • sinuō (verb)
  • sinuōsus (adjective)
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *sh₁ih₂sno-, deverbative of *seh₁y- ‘to sift, strain’ (compare Ancient Greek ἠθέω (ēthéō), Lithuanian sijóti, Serbo-Croatian sȉjati).

Alternative forms

  • sīnum

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsiː.nus/, [ˈs̠iːnʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.nus/, [ˈsiːnus]

Noun

sīnus m (genitive sīnī); second declension

  1. a large round drinking vessel with swelling sides, shaped like a bowl
Inflection

Second-declension noun.

References

  • “sinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sinus 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)
  • sinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • “sinus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “sinus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Noun

sinus

  1. locative singular of sitnu

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Noun

sinus m (definite singular sinusen, indefinite plural sinuser, definite plural sinusene)

  1. (trigonometry) sine
  2. (anatomy) sinus

Related terms

  • cosinus

References

  • “sinus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sinus.

Noun

sinus m (definite singular sinusen, indefinite plural sinusar, definite plural sinusane)

  1. (trigonometry) sine
  2. (anatomy) sinus

Related terms

  • cosinus

References

  • “sinus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.nus/
  • Rhymes: -inus
  • Syllabification: si‧nus

Noun

sinus m inan (related adjective sinusowy)

  1. (trigonometry) sine, sinus (in a right triangle, the ratio of the length of the side opposite an angle to the length of the hypotenuse)
    Hypernym: funkcja trygonometryczna
    Coordinate terms: cosecans, cosinus, cotangens, secans, tangens

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sinus, from Latin sinus.

Noun

sinus n (plural sinusuri)

  1. sine (trigonometric function)

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin sinus

Noun

sinus c

  1. (trigonometry) sine
  2. (anatomy) sinus

Declension

No inflected forms. sinus is used for the definite singular.

References

  • sinus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • sinus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • sinus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Veps

Pronoun

sinus

  1. inessive of sinä

Source: wiktionary.org