cynanche

Borrowed from Latin cynanchē, from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kŭnắnkhē, “a dog's collar, a bad kind of sore throat”). Doublet of quinsy.

cynanche (plural cynanches)

1. (obsolete, medicine) Any disease of the tonsils, throat, or windpipe, typicalling with inflammation, swelling, and difficulty breathing and swallowing.

• “cynanche”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠνᾰ́γχη (kŭnắnkhē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kyˈnaŋ.kʰeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiˈnaŋ.ke]

cynanchē f (genitive cynanchēs); first declension

1. (Late Latin, medicine) an inflammation of the throat, which caused the tongue to be thrust out

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē).

• English: cynanche

• “cy̆nanchē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cy̆nanchē”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 462/1.