cuneus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coin.
Noun[edit]
cuneus (plural cunei)
- (anatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
- (architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.
Translations[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (“sting”) (which also gave culex (“mosquito”)), extended from *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) (compare catus (“sharp”), acutus (“sharp”), cos (“whetstone”), Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”))
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cuneus m (genitive cuneī); second declension
- wedge, wedge shape
Inflection[edit]
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cuneus | cuneī |
Genitive | cuneī | cuneōrum |
Dative | cuneō | cuneīs |
Accusative | cuneum | cuneōs |
Ablative | cuneō | cuneīs |
Vocative | cunee | cuneī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Eastern Romance:
- Italian: conio
- Old French: coin, coigne
- Old Occitan:
- Old Portuguese:
- Portuguese: cunho
- Old Spanish:
- Spanish: cuño
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Ladin: cogn
- Venetian: cogn
- → Albanian: kunj
- → English: cuneus
- → Italian: cuneo
- → Portuguese: cúneo
- → Welsh: cŷn
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cunea
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- cuneus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cuneus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cuneus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- cuneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to draw up troops in a wedge-formation: cuneum facere (Liv. 22. 47)
- to draw up troops in a wedge-formation: cuneum facere (Liv. 22. 47)
- cuneus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cuneus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- cuneus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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