cuna

See also: Cuna, cùna, cuña, cunã, and cüna

Emilian

Alternative forms

• cûna (Reggiano)
• cùna (Modenese)

Etymology

From Latin cūna.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cu‧na

Noun

cuna f (plural cuni)

1. (Mirandola) cradle, crib (bed for a baby)

Derived terms

• cunèr (Modenese)
• cunàr (Mirandolese)

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Hausa

Noun

cūnā̀ f (plural cūnōnī, possessed form cūnàr̃)

1. A side seam joining the lower ends of a gown.

Verb

cuna (grade 1)

1. (with an indirect object) to set a person or animal to catch or attack someone

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Italian

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) Probably borrowed from Latin cūna, from Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoyneh₂, derived from the root *ḱey- (“to be lying down; to settle”). Doublet of the inherited culla, from a Vulgar Latin diminutive form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.na/, [ˈkuːn̺ä]
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: cù‧na

Noun

cuna f (plural cune) (literary and regional)

1. (literally and figuratively) cradle

   Synonym: culla

2. A cavity in the ground.

   Synonym: cunetta

Related terms

• culla

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.na/, [ˈkuːnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈku.na/, [ˈkuːnä]

Noun

cūna f (genitive cūnae); first declension

1. (rare) singular of cūnae

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cūna	cūnae
Genitive	cūnae	cūnārum
Dative	cūnae	cūnīs
Accusative	cūnam	cūnās
Ablative	cūnā	cūnīs
Vocative	cūna	cūnae

References

• “cuna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuna 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)
• cuna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Primitive Irish

Romanization

cuna

1. Romanization of ᚉᚒᚅᚐ

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Spanish

cuna

Etymology

From Old Spanish cuna, from Latin cūna, cūnae, from Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoyneh₂, derived from the root *ḱey- (“to be lying down; to settle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuna/ [ˈku.na]

Noun

cuna f (plural cunas)

1. cradle, crib

Derived terms

• acunar
• asaltacunas

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cūna, cūnae. Compare Italian culla

Noun

cuna f (plural cune)

1. cradle

Related terms

• cunar