corymbus

Latin corymbus; Doublet of corymb.

corymbus (plural corymbi)

1. (historical) A topknot anciently worn by girls in their hair.

• korymbos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κόρυμβος (kórumbos, “peak, summit; cluster of fruit; necklace”), from the same source as κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head, top, skull”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈrym.bus/, [kɔˈrʏmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈrim.bus/, [koˈrimbus]

corymbus m (genitive corymbī); second declension

1. cluster of fruit or flowers

Second-declension noun.

• “corymbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “corymbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• corymbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “corymbus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers