clivus

English

Etymology

Derived from Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪvəs/
• Hyphenation: cli‧vus

Noun

clivus (plural clivi)

1. (anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward.
2. (historical) A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome.

Derived terms

• clival

Related terms

• client
• climate
• climax
• clinic
• clinoid
• decline
• incline
• recline

Latin

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Italic *kleiwos or *kloiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywós or *kloy-wo-, itself from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) (Latin clīnō, English lean) + *-wós (Latin -vus).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkliː.vus]

Noun

clīvus m (genitive clīvī); second declension

1. slope, hill, rise

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	clīvus	clīvī
genitive	clīvī	clīvōrum
dative	clīvō	clīvīs
accusative	clīvum	clīvōs
ablative	clīvō	clīvīs
vocative	clīve	clīvī

Derived terms

• acclīvis
• clīvīnus
• clīvōsus
• clīvulus

Related terms

• clīnātus
• clīnō
• clīvius

Descendants

• English: clivus
• Italian: clivo

References

• “clivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “clivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122