• CURL

1. v. TR., torquere: convolvere: involvere [Vid: To TWIST]: crispare: concrispare (to make curly, in general): To curl one’s hair, calamistro intorquere or convertere: calamistro ornare: calamistro inurere; also inurere only (with a curling-iron; e.g., comam, crines, capillos). Curled hair, capillus crispus: curled locks, concrispati capilli (Vitrvius): curled (with an iron), calamistratus (also of one who has his hair curled in that way).

2.

• INTR.,
• To twist itself, curvari: se curvare: incurvari (to round itself, or assume a circular form, of things); also crispari; leniter inflecti; se crispare or concrispare: se vertere or vertere only; se convertere; converti; se torquere; se versare; circumagi; ferri; se convertere et torquere circum aliquid; ambire aliquid; versari, volvi, ferri circa aliquid [SYN. in To TWIST]: one whose hair curls naturally, cirratus: hair that curls naturally, cirrus (generally used in the plur.). Curling (of vapours), se concrispans (Vitrvius).

3.

• s. cirrus (a natural curl): having natural curls, cirratus: cincinnus (an artificial curl); he who wears them (cincinnatus): annulus (a ringlet): the ends of curls, cincinnorum fimbriae.
• Undulation, fluctus (a curling of the waves, as well as the wave itself).