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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

English

Alternative forms

• aard-wolf (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans aardwolf.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?w?lf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d.?w?lf/
• Hyphenation: aard?wolf

Noun

aardwolf (plural aardwolves)

1. A nocturnal, insectivorous mammal, Proteles cristatus, of southern and eastern Africa, related to and resembling the hyena. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]

Related terms

• aardvark
• earthwolf

Translations

See also

• Proteles

Further reading

• aardwolf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Aard-wolf in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• erdwolf

Etymology

From aarde (“earth, soil”) +? wolf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???rtvo?f]

Noun

aardwolf (plural aardwolwe)

1. aardwolf

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans aardwolf. Equivalent to aard +? wolf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?rt???lf/
• Hyphenation: aard?wolf

Noun

aardwolf m (plural aardwolven, diminutive aardwolfje n)

1. aardwolf

Related terms

• aardvarken n