uncinus

From Latin uncīnus (“hook”).

• Rhymes: -aɪnəs

uncinus (plural uncini)

1. (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of fine hair-like strands, with hooked terminations. Associated only with cirrus formations.
2. (paleontology) The curved tip of the hooks associated with belemnite tentacles.

• unciform

• AMS Glossary of Meteorology

• nuncius

Diminutive of uncus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /unˈkiː.nus/, [ʊŋˈkiːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /unˈt͡ʃi.nus/, [un̠ʲˈt͡ʃiːnus]

uncīnus m (genitive uncīnī); second declension

1. hook, barb

Second-declension noun.

• uncātus
• uncīnātus
• uncīnulus

• Corsican: ancinu, oncinu, uncinu
• English: uncinus
• Galician: anciño
• Italian: uncino
• Portuguese: ancinho
• Sardinian: unchinu, uncinu
• Spanish: uncino

• “uncinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press