cingo

• çingo, çingë

From Ottoman Turkish چینقو (çinko), itself from Italian zinco (“zinc”), from Latin zincum (“id.”), ultimately from German Zink (“id.”) or directly from Italian zinco.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sinɡo/

cíngo f (plural cíngo, definite cíngoja, definite plural cíngot)

1. thin enameled metal
2. enameled dishes or containers

• “cingo”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[1], 1980

cingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cinguir

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃin.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -inɡo
• Hyphenation: cìn‧go

cingo

1. first-person singular present indicative of cingere

• Cigno, cigno, cogni, congi

Perhaps from Proto-Italic *kengō, from a Proto-Indo-European *kenk- (“to gird, tie”). Possibly related to Lithuanian kinkýti (“to bridle horses”) and Sanskrit कञ्च् (kañc, “to bind”), कञ्चुक (kañcuka, “armor”); however, these terms present phonetic problems regarding their cognacy.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪŋ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiŋ.ɡo]

cingō (present infinitive cingere, perfect active cinxī, supine cinctum); third conjugation

1. to surround, circle, ring, encircle
2. to gird on; to crown or garland

• “cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cingo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cingo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to surround a town with a rampart and fosse: oppidum cingere vallo et fossa
    
  • to be surrounded by the superior force of the enemy: multitudine hostium cingi