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pelvis

See also: pélvis

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Etymology edit

From Latin pelvis (“basin”), from Old Latin peluis (“basin”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“container”). Compare Sanskrit पलव (palava, “wicker-work basket for catching fish”), Ancient Greek πήληξ (pḗlēx, “helmet”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛlvɪs/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛlvɪs

Noun edit

pelvis (plural pelvises or pelves)

  1. (anatomy) The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx.
  2. (anatomy) A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter

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Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

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pelvis f (invariable)

  1. pelvis

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pelvis m (plural pelvis)

  1. pelvis

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Etymology edit

From Old Latin peluis (“basin”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“container”). Compare Sanskrit पलव (palava, “wicker-work basket of for catching fish”), Ancient Greek πήληξ (pḗlēx, “helmet”).

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pēlvis f (genitive pēlvis); third declension

  1. shallow bowl or basin

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Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pēlvis pēlvēs
Genitive pēlvis pēlvium
Dative pēlvī pēlvibus
Accusative pēlvim
pēlvem 		pēlvēs
pēlvīs
Ablative pēlvī
pēlve 		pēlvibus
Vocative pēlvis pēlvēs

Descendants edit

  • → Catalan: pelvis
  • → English: pelvis
  • → French: pelvis
  • → Galician: pelve
  • → Portuguese: pelve, pélvis
  • → Spanish: pelvis

Further reading edit

  • “pelvis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pelvis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pelvis 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)
  • pelvis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pelvis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “pelvis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

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pelvis n (plural pelvisuri)

  1. pelvis

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Declension of pelvis
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pelvis pelvisul (niște) pelvisuri pelvisurile
genitive/dative (unui) pelvis pelvisului (unor) pelvisuri pelvisurilor
vocative pelvisule pelvisurilor

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Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈpelbis/ [ˈpel.β̞is]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -elbis
  • Syllabification: pel‧vis

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pelvis f (plural pelvis)

  1. pelvis

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