FromLatincicatrix.
cicatrix (pluralcicatrixesorcicatrices)
- Ascar that remains after thedevelopment of newtissue over arecoveringwound orsore(also used figuratively).
1853, John C. Cobden,The White Slaves of England, Cincinnati: Derby, page33:Here the boy was made to strip, and the commissioner, Mr Symonds, found a large cicatrix likely to have been occasioned by such an instrument...
1938,Xavier Herbert, chapter II, inCapricornia, page21:He stopped to stare at two old men who sat beside the fire, naked and daubed with red and white ochre and adorned about arms and legs and breasts with elaborate systems ofcicatrix.
scar that remains after the development of new tissue
—seescarUnknown etymology, possibly from a substrate.
cicātrīx f (genitivecicātrīcis);third declension
- scar
Third-declension noun.
- “cicatrix”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cicatrix”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cicatrix inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- wounds (scars) on the breast:vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp.aversa)
- to open an old wound:refricarevulnus, cicatricem obductam
