uncus

From Latin uncus (“hook”).

uncus (plural unci)

1. (zoology) A hook or claw.
2. (anatomy, by extension) Any body part which is long, thin, and curved.
   1. (neuroanatomy) Specifically, the hooked end of the parahippocampal gyrus of the temporal lobe.

      Synonyms: uncinate gyrus, uncus gyri parahippocampalis

• sliding uncus syndrome

• uncous

From Proto-Italic *onkos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ónkos (“hook”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos) and Sanskrit अङ्क (aṅká).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊŋ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuŋ.kus]

uncus m (genitive uncī); second declension

1. hook, barb
2. a hook used to drag criminals by the neck
3. (medicine) a surgical instrument

Second-declension noun.

• (hook, barb): uncīnus

• uncifer (New Latin)

• Translingual: Uncifera

uncus (feminine unca, neuter uncum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hooked, curved, barbed
2. crooked, bent

First/second-declension adjective.

• aduncus
• obuncus

• uncātiō
• uncātus
• uncīnus

• “uncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• uncus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.