uncus

From Latin uncus (“hook”).

uncus (plural unci)

1. (zoology) A hook or claw.
2. (anatomy, by extension) Any body part which is long, thin, and curved.
   1. (neuroanatomy) Specifically, the hooked end of the parahippocampal gyrus of the temporal lobe.

      Synonyms: uncinate gyrus, uncus gyri parahippocampalis

• sliding uncus syndrome

• uncous

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊŋ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuŋ.kus]

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

uncus m (genitive uncī); second declension

1. hook, barb

   Synonym: uncīnus

2. a hook used to drag criminals by the neck
3. (medicine) a surgical instrument
4. (New Latin, typography) a bracket

   uncus quadrātus ― a square bracket

   uncus rotundus ― a parenthesis

Second-declension noun.

• Translingual: Uncifera

From uncus + -us.

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

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

First/second-declension adjective.

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