From Latin pēlvis (“basin”), from Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛlvɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛlvɪs

pelvis (plural pelvises or pelves)

2. (anatomy) The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs. It consists of hip bone, sacrum and coccyx.
3. (anatomy) A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter

• pelvic
• (cavity): hydropelvis, hydropelvic

• pelvis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hip bone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

pelvis

Wikipedia ^ca

Borrowed from Latin pēlvis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈpɛl.βis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɛl.vis]

pelvis f (invariable)

1. pelvis

• pelvià

• “pelvis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /pɛl.vis/
• Rhymes: -is

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pelvis m (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

• “pelvis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology unknown.^[1] Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“container”). Potential cognates include Sanskrit पालवी (pālavī, “a kind of vessel”), Ancient Greek πελίκη (pelíkē, “a type of container”)^[2] Sanskrit पलव (palava, “wicker-work basket of for catching fish”), Ancient Greek πήληξ (pḗlēx, “helmet”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpeːl.u̯is/, [ˈpeːɫ̪u̯ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpel.vis/, [ˈpɛlvis]

pēlvis f (genitive pēlvis); third declension

1. shallow bowl or basin

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -im or occasionally -em, ablative singular in -ī or -e).

• “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

Borrowed from Latin pēlvis.

pelvis n (plural pelvisuri)

1. pelvis

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

pelvis

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Latin pēlvis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpelbis/ [ˈpel.β̞is]

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• Rhymes: -elbis
• Syllabification: pel‧vis

pelvis f (plural pelvis)

1. pelvis

• “pelvis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10