clunis Latin · revision 33092

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *ḱlou-ni-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈkɫuː.nɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈkluː.nis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''clūnis''' ''m'' or f (genitive clūnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*klouni-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*ḱlou-ni-|t=hip, buttock]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[wlm|clun|t=haunch]], [[sa|श्रोणि|tr=śróṇi-|t=buttock, hip, loin]], [[lt|šlaunìs|t=haunch, hip]] and [[non|hlaun|t=buttocks]].^(de Vaan 2008) The OLD also compares [[grc|κλόνις|tr=klónis|t=os sacrum]], but de Vaan thinks it cannot continue the same form and calls the usual explanation gratuitous.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008) He finds no good root etymology for it.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Lucilius uses it of someone who will wriggle as if winnowing grain with his buttocks.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means the hind quarters, buttocks or haunches, mostly in the plural, of animals and people:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Horace has wood pigeons served without the rump.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of the hind part of spiders and of a kind of cockroach with a pointed rear.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is both masculine and feminine, so that the grammarians differ on its gender; the singular occurs in Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Petronius and Pliny the Elder.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of winnowing with the buttocks.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of pigeons without the rump.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of spiders and cockroaches.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The hind quarters, [[m|en|buttocks]], [[m|en|haunch|alt=haunches]], [[m|en|rump]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The corresponding part of spiders and insects.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[clūnāculum]]

+ * [[clūnālis]]

+ * [[clūnicula]]

+ * [[clūniculus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nātis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}