# crine
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: krīn, IPA: /kɹaɪn/
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Etymology 1

From Scottish Gaelic crion (“withered”) and Irish críon (“withered, decayed”), in any case, from Old Irish crín.

#### Verb

crine (third-person singular simple present crines, present participle crining, simple past and past participle crined)
* (intransitive, Scotland) To wither, wilt, shrivel.

### Etymology 2

From Middle French crine (whence also French crin), Italian crine, or directly from Latin crīnis (“hair of the head, lock of hair, plume”).

#### Noun

crine (countable and uncountable, plural crines)
* (obsolete) Hair of the head.

### Further reading

* “crine, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* “crine, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin crīnis, from Proto-Italic *kriznis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kre-i-s-, extension of the root *(s)ker- (“to turn; to bend”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkri.ne/
* Rhymes: -ine
* Hyphenation: crì‧ne

### Noun

crine m (plural crini)
* any hair from the mane or tail of a horse or other similar animal
** horsehair
*** 13th century, “Del conoscimento della bellezza de’ Cavalli”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture]‎, translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri XII by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 405:I crini sien piani, e pochiThe hairs should be straight, and few
* (collective) a mass of such hair
* a fabric made from such hair
* (poetic) a hair
    Synonym: capello
** 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro quinto [Fifth Book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New Chronicle]‎, published 1991:tutto spogliata di vestimenti, e’ crini del capo diligentemente scrinatiCompletely stripped of clothes, and [with] diligently styled hair
* (poetic, collective) hair
    Synonym: capelli
** c. 1340, Giovanni Boccaccio, Teseida‎, section 30, page 381:Con rabbuffata barba e tristo crineWith ruffled beard and messed-up hair
** 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Il sabato del villaggio”, in Canti‎, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 95:ornare ella si appresta ¶ dimani, al dí di festa, il petto e il crineShe prepares to ornate, tomorrow, on the day of the festival, the chest and the hair
* tail (visible stream from a comet)
    Synonym: coda
** 1581, Annibale Caro, transl., Eneide [Aeneid]‎, Florence: Leonardo Ciardetti, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, published 1827, Libro V, page 243:Tal sovente dal ciel divelta cade ¶ Notturna stella, e trascorrendo lascia ¶ Dopo sè lungo e luminoso il crine.Like that, a night star torn from the sky often falls, and, passing, it leaves after itself long and bright tail.
* (poetic) ray, beam
    Synonym: raggio
** 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto ⅩⅩⅣ, page 355, lines 1–3:In quella parte del giovanetto anno ¶ che ’l sole i crin sotto l'Aquario tempraIn that part of the young year where the Sun makes the rays warm under the Aquarius
* (Tuscan) Synonym of crinale

#### Derived terms

* scrinare

#### Related terms

* crina
* crinale

### Further reading

* crine in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* cerni

## Latin
### Noun

crīne
* ablative singular of crīnis

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* cryne

### Etymology

From Gaelic crìon (fade, wither).

### Verb

crine
* shrink, shrivel

#### Usage notes

Often in the phrase "to crine in", meaning to become smaller in old age.

## Spanish
### Verb

crine
* inflection of crinar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative