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Webster 1913 Edition
Acinus
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Ac′i-nus
(ăs′ĭ-nŭs)
, Noun.
pl.
Acini
. [L., grape, grapestone.]
1.
(Bot.)
(a)
One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
(b)
A grapestone.
2.
(Anat.)
One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
Quain.
Webster 1828 Edition
Acinus
AC'INUS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
acinus
acinus
English
Noun
acinus (plural acini)
- (botany) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.
- (botany) A grape-stone.
- (anatomy) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland.
- Richard Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy
- Their smallest lobules were called acini, a term which has also been used to denote the saccular recesses in the lobules […]
- Richard Quain, Quain's elements of anatomy
Translations
one of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland (anatomy)
Latin
Etymology
From aciēs (“sharp point”), due to the presence of a sharp seed inside the grape.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ki.nus/, [ˈa.kɪ.nʊs]
Noun
acinus m (genitive acinī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | acinus | acinī |
genitive | acinī | acinōrum |
dative | acinō | acinīs |
accusative | acinum | acinōs |
ablative | acinō | acinīs |
vocative | acine | acinī |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- acinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ACINUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.