clunis

From Proto-Italic *klounis, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlównis. Cognate with Lithuanian šlaunis, Sanskrit श्रोणि (śróṇi).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkluː.nis/, [ˈkɫ̪uːnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklu.nis/, [ˈkluːnis]

clūnis m or f (genitive clūnis); third declension

1. (anatomy) rump, buttocks

More common in the plural form.

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• cūlus
• natis
• pōdex
• puga

• clūnālis
• clūnicula

• Old Spanish: llun
• → Italian: clune

• “clunis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clunis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clunis 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)
• clunis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.