different between cuniculus vs cunny

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cun?culus.

Noun

cuniculus (plural cuniculi)

1. a burrow or low underground passage
2. a burrow in the skin made by a mite

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kóniklos), probably of Iberian or Celtiberian origin; compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”), Mozarabic conchair (“greyhound”). The original meaning “burrow” adapted to the rabbit or vice versa.

Attested beginning from Cicero and Varro.

Alternative forms

• cuniculum, cuniclus, cunicolus, coniculus, conicolus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni?.ku.lus/, [k??ni?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni.ku.lus/, [ku?ni?kulus]

Noun

cun?culus m (genitive cun?cul?, feminine cun?cula); second declension

1. a rabbit
2. a rabbit burrow
   1. a mine, underground tunnel or gallery

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• cun?cul?rium

Descendants

• Latin: cun?clus (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: cuniculus
• ? Italian: cunicolo
• ? Portuguese: cunículo

See also

• cuneus
• cunnus

References

• “cun?culus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cuniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• cuniculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?ni/

Etymology 1

See cony.

Noun

cunny (plural cunnies)

1. Obsolete form of cony (“rabbit”).

Related terms

• cuniculus
• cuniculture

Etymology 2

Diminutive form of cunt with -y.

Noun

cunny (plural cunnies)

1. (vulgar, slang) A cunt, vulva.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:vagina