lemniscus

From Latin lēmniscus, from Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnískos). See lemniscata.

• IPA^(key): /lɛmˈnɪs.kəs/
• Hyphenation: lem‧nis‧cus

lemniscus (plural lemniscuses or lemnisci)

1. (zoology) One of two oval bodies hanging from the interior walls of the body in the Acanthocephala.
2. A woollen fillet attached to the back of crowns, diadems, etc.
3. (anatomy) A ribbon of fibers, especially of cerebral white nerve fibers.

From Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnískos, “woollen fillet, ribbon”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /leːmˈnis.kus/, [ɫeːmˈnɪs.kʊs]

lēmniscus m (genitive lēmniscī); second declension

1. A pendent ribbon

Second declension.

• lēmniscātus

• lemniscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lemniscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lemniscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• lemniscus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lemniscus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin