cinnabaris

Latin

Alternative forms

cinnabari n (Late Latin)
cinnabrium (after antiquity in the cinnabar sense)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪnˈna.ba.rɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃinˈnaː.ba.ris]

Noun

cinnabaris f (genitive cinnabaris); third declension)

dragon's blood (resin, the colour of cinnabar)
(in New Latin at least) cinnabar

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	cinnabaris	cinnabarēs
genitive	cinnabaris	cinnabarium
dative	cinnabarī	cinnabaribus
accusative	cinnabarem cinnabarim	cinnabarēs cinnabarīs
ablative	cinnabare cinnabarī	cinnabaribus
vocative	cinnabaris	cinnabarēs

Descendants

Catalan: cinabri
Old French: cinabre, cinobre, cenobre
- French: cinabre, cinnabre, cinobre, cinnobre (obsolete)
- → Middle Dutch: cinoper, cinopel, cynoper, sinoper, zinopel, sinopel (apparently confused with the dye sinople)
- → English: cinnabar
- → Middle High German: zinober
  - German: Zinnober
    - → Danish: cinnober
    - → Finnish: sinooperi
    - → Norwegian: sinober
    - → Swedish: cinnober
  - → Polish: cynober
Galician: cinabrio
Italian: cinabro
Portuguese: cinábrio
Spanish: cinabrio

References

“cinnabaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
cinnabaris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.