pelvis

See also: pélvis

English

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛlvɪs/

• Audio (Berkshire, UK)):

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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

bone

• Arabic: حَوْض m (ḥawḍ)

  Egyptian Arabic: حوض m (ḥōḍ)

• Armenian: կոնք (hy) (konkʻ)
• Azerbaijani: çanaq (az)
• Belarusian: таз m (taz)
• Bulgarian: таз m (taz)
• Catalan: pelvis (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 骨盆 (zh) (gǔpén), 骨盤／骨盘 (zh) (gǔpán), 骨盘 (zh) (gǔpán)

• Czech: pánev (cs) f
• Danish: bækken (da) n
• Dutch: bekken (nl) n
• Estonian: vaagnaluu, vaagen
• Finnish: lantiorengas
• French: bassin (fr) m, pelvis (fr) m
• Galician: pelve (gl) f
• Georgian: მენჯი (menǯi), კუდუსუნი (ḳudusuni)
• German: Becken (de) n
• Greek: λεκάνη (el) f (lekáni)
• Hebrew: אַגָּן (he) m (agán)
• Hungarian: medence (hu), medencecsont (hu)
• Icelandic: mjaðmargrind (is) f
• Indonesian: tulang pinggang (id)
• Irish: peilbheas m
• Italian: bacino (it) m
• Japanese: 骨盤 (こつばん, kotsuban)
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• Kazakh: жамбас (jambas)
• Korean: 골반(骨盤) (ko) (golban)
• Latin: pelvis f
• Lithuanian: dubuo m
• Macedonian: карлица f (karlica)
• Maori: papatoiake
• Navajo: akʼaiʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bekken (no) n

  Nynorsk: bekken n

• Polish: miednica (pl) f
• Portuguese: pelve f, bacia (pt) f, pélvis (pt) f
• Romanian: pelvis (ro) m
• Russian: таз (ru) m (taz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀рлица f, зделица f, здје̏лица f

  Roman: kàrlica (sh) f, zdelica (sh) f, zdjȅlica (sh) f

• Slovak: panva (sk) f, panvica f
• Slovene: medenica (sl) f
• Spanish: pelvis (es) f
• Swedish: bäcken (sv) n
• Tagalog: balakang (tl)
• Thai: เชิงกราน (chəəng-graan), กระดูกเชิงกราน (grà-dùuk chəəng-graan)
• Turkish: pelvis (tr)
• Ukrainian: таз m (taz)
• Vietnamese: khung chậu, xương chậu
• Yiddish: בעקן m (bekn)

See also

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

• bone
• coccyx
• hip
• hipbone
• ilium
• innominate bone
• ischium
• os coxae
• pubis
• sacrum

 

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pelvis f (invariable)

1. pelvis

Derived terms

• pelvià

Further reading

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛl.vis/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

pelvis m (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Further reading

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

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Latin

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pēlvis f (genitive pēlvis); third declension

1. shallow bowl or basin

Declension

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

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēlvis	pēlvēs
Genitive	pēlvis	pēlvium
Dative	pēlvī	pēlvibus
Accusative	pēlvim pēlvem	pēlvēs pēlvīs
Ablative	pēlvī pēlve	pēlvibus
Vocative	pēlvis	pēlvēs

Descendants

• → Catalan: pelvis
• → English: pelvis
• → French: pelvis

• → Galician: pelve
• → Portuguese: pelve, pélvis
• → Spanish: pelvis

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 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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Noun

pelvis n (plural pelvisuri)

1. pelvis

Declension

Declension of pelvis

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pelvis	pelvisul	(niște) pelvisuri	pelvisurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pelvis	pelvisului	(unor) pelvisuri	pelvisurilor
vocative	pelvisule		pelvisurilor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelbis/ [ˈpel.β̞is]

• Audio (Colombia):

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Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Related terms

• pelviano

Further reading

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