different between echinus vs gorgerin

English

Etymology

From Latin ech?nus (“hedgehog; sea urchin”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos).

Noun

echinus (plural echinuses or echini)

1. A sea urchin.
2. (architecture) The rounded moulding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve.
3. (architecture) The quarter-round moulding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style.
4. (architecture) The egg-and-anchor or egg-and-dart moulding, because often identified with the Roman Doric capital.

Anagrams

• Su-ch'ien

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (ekhînos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?k?i?.nus/, [??k?i?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?ki.nus/, [??ki?nus]

Noun

ech?nus m (genitive ech?n?); second declension

1. a sea urchin, especially the edible kind
2. a hedgehog
3. the prickly husk of a chestnut
4. a rinsing bowl, especially of copper
5. (architecture) an ornament under the chapiter of an Ionic or Doric column

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (hedgehog): ?rin?ceus

Derived terms

• ech?n?tus
• ech?nom?trae

Descendants

• Translingual: Echinus
• ? English: echinus
• Spanish: equino

References

• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• echinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• echinus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• echinus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• echinus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• echinus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French gorgerin

Noun

gorgerin (plural gorgerins)

1. (architecture) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; the hypotrachelium.

Anagrams

• Gorringe, rogering

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.??.???/

Noun

gorgerin m (plural gorgerins)

1. (historical) gorget (armor for throat)
2. (historical) gorget, wimple (piece of clothing)
3. (architecture) gorgerin
4. In Ancient Egypt, an heavy and rather bulky jewel which rested on the chest skin or a short-sleeved shirt, and tied at the back.

Further reading

• “gorgerin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).