different between crotch vs pelvis

English

Etymology

From Middle English crotche, croche (also in unassilibated form croke, "a shepherd's crook"), from Old French croche (“shepherd's crook”); merged with Middle English cruche, crucche (“a crutch”). More at crook, crutch.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??t?/
• Rhymes: -?t?

Noun

crotch (plural crotches)

1. The area where something forks or branches, a ramification takes place.

2. The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.

3. (slang, euphemistic) Either the male or female genitalia.

4. (billiards) In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
5. (typography) The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".

Derived terms

• crotch area
• crotch seam
• split crotch
• finger crotch

Translations

Verb

crotch (third-person singular simple present crotches, present participle crotching, simple past and past participle crotched)

1. (transitive) To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.

2. (transitive, logging, historical, Western US) To notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?lv?s/

Noun

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

Related terms

• pelvic
• (cavity): hydropelvis, hydropelvic

Translations

See also

• pelvis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hip bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bone
• coccyx
• hip
• hipbone
• ilium
• innominate bone
• ischium
• os coxae
• pubis
• sacrum

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?p?l.vis/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?p?l.bis/

Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Derived terms

• pelvià

Further reading

• “pelvis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pe?l.u?is/, [?pe???u??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pel.vis/, [?p?lvis]

Noun

p?lvis f (genitive p?lvis); third declension

1. shallow bowl or basin

Declension

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

Descendants

Further reading

• 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, 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

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Related terms

• pelviano