cissitis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κισσῖτῐς (kissîtĭs), from κισσός (kissós, “ivy”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɪsˈsiː.tɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃisˈsiː.tis]

cissītis f (genitive cissītidis); third declension

1. a kind of gem, the color of the ivy

Third-declension noun.

• “cissitis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cissitis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.