uncus

From Latin uncus (“hook”).

uncus (plural unci)

1. (zoology) A hook or claw.
2. (anatomy) Hence, any body part which is long, thin, and curved.
3. (neuroanatomy) Specifically, the hooked end of the parahippocampal gyrus of the temporal lobe; also called the uncinate gyrus or uncus gyri parahippocampalis.

• uncous

From Proto-Italic *onkos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ónkos (“hook”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos) and Sanskrit अङ्क (aṅká).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈun.kus/, [ˈʊŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈun.kus/, [ˈuŋkus]

uncus m (genitive uncī); second declension

1. hook, barb
2. a hook used to drag criminals by the neck
3. (medicine) a surgical instrument

Second-declension noun.

• (hook, barb): uncīnus

• uncifer (New Latin)

• Translingual: Uncifera

uncus (feminine unca, neuter uncum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hooked, curved, barbed
2. crooked, bent

First/second-declension adjective.

• aduncus
• obuncus

• uncātiō
• uncātus
• uncīnus

• “uncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “uncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• uncus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.