ciniflo

Latin

Etymology

From cinis (“ashes”) +‎ flō (“blow”) +‎ -ō (agent noun suffix), i.e. one who blows the ashes used to heat a hair roller.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

ciniflō m (genitive ciniflōnis); third declension

  1. a male hairdresser
    Synonym: cinerārius

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ciniflō ciniflōnēs
genitive ciniflōnis ciniflōnum
dative ciniflōnī ciniflōnibus
accusative ciniflōnem ciniflōnēs
ablative ciniflōne ciniflōnibus
vocative ciniflō ciniflōnēs

References

  • “ciniflo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ciniflo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ciniflo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ “ciniflō” on page 315/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “cinis”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 121/2
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