cuna
Emilian edit
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Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: cu‧na
Noun edit
cuna f (plural cuni)
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Hausa edit
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cūnā̀ f (plural cūnōnī, possessed form cūnàr̃)
- A side seam joining the lower ends of a gown.
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cūnā̀ (grade 1)
- (with an indirect object) to set a person or animal to catch or attack someone
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Probably borrowed from Latin cūna, from Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoyneh₂, derived from the root *ḱey- (“to be lying down; to settle”). Doublet of the inherited culla, from a Vulgar Latin diminutive form.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cuna f (plural cune) (literary and regional)
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.na/, [ˈkuːnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.na/, [ˈkuːnä]
Noun edit
cūna f (genitive cūnae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cūna | cūnae |
Genitive | cūnae | cūnārum |
Dative | cūnae | cūnīs |
Accusative | cūnam | cūnās |
Ablative | cūnā | cūnīs |
Vocative | cūna | cūnae |
References edit
- “cuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- cuna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Primitive Irish edit
Romanization edit
cuna
- Romanization of ᚉᚒᚅᚐ
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Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Spanish cuna, from Latin cūna, cūnae, from Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoyneh₂, derived from the root *ḱey- (“to be lying down; to settle”).
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cuna f (plural cunas)
- cradle, crib
- homeland
- Synonym: patria
- lineage, family, heritage
- 1981, Joan Manuel Gisbert, El misterio de la isla de Tökland:
- ...constituía una variadísima galería de tipos humanos que abarcaba desde los más sórdidos subsuelos del hampa hasta las más acrisoladas cunas de la aristocracia europea...
- ...it comprised a most varied gallery of different types of humans that spanned from the dirtiest substrata of the underworld to the most refined families of the European aristocracy...
- origin, beginning
- Synonym: origen
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Further reading edit
- “cuna”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin cūna, cūnae. Compare Italian culla.
Noun edit
cuna f (plural cune)