cernuus

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈker.nu.us/, [ˈkɛrnuʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.nu.us/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrnuːs]

cernuus (feminine cernua, neuter cernuum); first/second-declension adjective

1. with the face turned towards the earth, inclined forwards, stooping or bowing forwards

   Tantum ergo Sacramentum / Veneremur cernui (Tantum Ergo, Thomas Aquinas)

   Therefore, so great a Sacrament / Let us venerate bowed forwards

2. (Vergilian) falling over

   Equus cernuus (Aeneid liber X 894)

   falling horse

First/second-declension adjective.

• cernuō

• “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cernuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cernuus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cernuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “cernuus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “cernuus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin