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/

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)
• 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)
• Hungarian: medence (hu)
• Icelandic: mjaðmargrind (is) f
• Indonesian: tulang pinggang (id)
• Japanese: 骨盤 (こつばん, kotsuban)
• Kazakh: жамбас (jambas)
• Korean: 골반 (ko) (golban) (骨盤 (ko))
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• 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
• Russian: таз (ru) m (taz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: карлица f, зделица f, здјелица f

  Roman: karlica (sh) f, zdelica (sh) f, zdjelica (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

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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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): /ˈpel.u̯is/, [ˈpɛɫ̪u̯ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.vis/, [ˈpɛlvis]

Noun

pelvis f (genitive pelvis); 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	pelvis	pelvēs
Genitive	pelvis	pelvium
Dative	pelvī	pelvibus
Accusative	pelvim pelvem	pelvēs pelvīs
Ablative	pelvī pelve	pelvibus
Vocative	pelvis	pelvēs

References

• “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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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pelvis.

Noun

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

Related terms

• pelviano