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{{Lewis
|lshtext=<b>cincinnus</b>: i. m. kindr. [[with]] Gr. [[κίκιννος]] and Lat. [[cirrus]]; Sanscr. cicura, [[crinis]], Bopp, Gloss. 124 a,<br /><b>I</b> curled [[hair]], a [[lock]] or [[curl]] of [[hair]], Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 32; Varr. R. R. 1, 31, 4; Cic. Pis. 11, 25.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[too]] [[artificial]] or [[elaborate]] [[oratorical]] [[ornament]] (cf. [[calamister]], II.): in oratoris aut in poëtae cincinnis ac [[fuco]] offenditur, [[quod]], etc., Cic. de Or. 2, 25, 100; Aug. ap. Suet. Aug. 86.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>cincinnus</b>,¹⁴ ī, m. ([[κίκιννος]]), boucle de cheveux : Cic. Pis. 25 &#124;&#124; [fig.] poetæ cincinni Cic. de Or. 3, 100, les frisures [ornements artificiels] chez un poète.||[fig.] poetæ cincinni Cic. de Or. 3, 100, les frisures [ornements artificiels] chez un poète.
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{{Georges
|georg=cincinnus, ī, m. ([[κίκιννος]]), das gekräuselte [[Haar]], die (künstliche) Haarlocke (versch. [[von]] [[cirrus]], der natürlichen Haarlocke), c. capitis, Plaut.: cincinnorum [[fimbriae]], Cic.: altior [[hic]] [[quare]] [[cincinnus]]? Iuven.: colligare cincinnos, Eccl.: feminae cincinnos crispare, Maecen. in Sen. ep. 114, 5. – übtr., zu gekünstelter [[Schmuck]], Schnörkelei, Ziererei im Ausdrucke, Cic. de or. 3, 100. [[August]]. [[bei]] Suet. Aug. 86, 2.
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{{LaEn
|lnetxt=cincinnus cincinni N M :: ringlet, curl/lock; curled hair; rhetorical flourish, artificial embellishment
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