cuna

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

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin cūna.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: cu‧na

Noun

cuna f (plural cuni)

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

Derived terms

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃúː.nàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key):

Noun

cūnā̀ f (plural cūnōnī, possessed form cūnàr̃)

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

Verb

cūnā̀ (grade 1)

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

Italian

Etymology

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/
  • 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

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Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

cūna f (genitive cūnae); first declension

  1. (rare) singular of cūnae
  2. a crib (for infant)

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.

Primitive Irish

Romanization

cuna

  1. Romanization of ᚉᚒᚅᚐ

Spanish

cuna

Etymology

Inherited 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/
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -una
  • Syllabification: cu‧na

Noun

cuna f (plural cunas)

  1. cradle, crib
  2. homeland
    Synonym: patria
  3. lineage, family, heritage
    • 1981, Joan Manuel Gisbert, El misterio de la isla de Tökland:
      ...constituía una variadísima galería de tipos humanos que abarcaba desde los más sórdidos subsuelos del hampa hasta las más acrisoladas cunas de la aristocracia europea...
      ...it comprised a most varied gallery of different types of humans that spanned from the dirtiest substrata of the underworld to the most refined families of the European aristocracy...
  4. origin, beginning
    Synonym: origen

Derived terms

Further reading

Venetian

Etymology

From Latin cūna, cūnae. Compare Italian culla.

Noun

cuna f (plural cune)

  1. cradle

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