pelvis

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛlvɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlvɪs

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

• pelvic
• (cavity): hydropelvis, hydropelvic

• pelvis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hip bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛl.βis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [ˈpɛl.vis]

pelvis f (invariable)

1. pelvis

• pelvià

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

• IPA^(key): /pɛl.vis/
• Rhymes: -is

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pelvis m (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

• “pelvis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːl.u̯is/, [ˈpeːɫ̪u̯ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.vis/, [ˈpɛlvis]

pēlvis f (genitive pēlvis); third declension

1. shallow bowl or basin

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

• “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

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

pelvis n (plural pelvisuri)

1. pelvis

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelbis/ [ˈpel.β̞is]

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• Rhymes: -elbis
• Syllabification: pel‧vis

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

• “pelvis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014