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6-letter words (1 found)

CUNEUS,

5-letter words (2 found)

UNCES,UNCUS,

4-letter words (4 found)

CENS,CUES,ECUS,UNCE,

3-letter words (10 found)

CUE,ECU,ENS,NUS,SEC,SEN,SUE,SUN,UNS,USE,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,ES,NE,NU,UN,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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Definitions and meaning of cuneus

cuneus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.

Noun

cuneus (plural cunei)

  1. (neuroanatomy) A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
  2. (entomology) A wedge-shaped section of the forewing of certain heteropteran bugs.
  3. (architecture) One of a set of wedge-shaped divisions separated by stairways, found in the Ancient Roman theatre and in mediaeval architecture.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain root, apparently with the suffix -eus. Various problematic comparisons to either Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”) or *ḱúH- (“spike; sting”) (compare Latin culex (“mosquito”), Avestan 𐬯𐬏𐬐𐬁 (sūkā, “needle”), Sanskrit शूक (śūka, “spike, bristle; sting (of an insect)”), शूल (śūla, “spear; stake”) etc.) have been unfruitful; a long vowel (*cūneus) would be expected in the latter case, and the morphology of the -n-eus suffix remains opaque. One possibility is that cuneus is a borrowing from Ancient Greek γώνιος (gṓnios, “corner, angle”) via an Etruscan intermediate which could explain the devoicing.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ne.us/, [ˈkʊneʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ne.us/, [ˈkuːneus]

Noun

cuneus m (genitive cuneī); second declension

  1. wedge, wedge shape
  2. (military) troops arrayed in a wedge formation
  3. (military, figuratively) an army
  4. (theater) a block of seats

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

  • cuneifōrmis
  • cuneō
  • cuneolus
  • cuneātim

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: cunj, cunjiu
    • Romanian: cui
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: conio
    • Neapolitan: cogno
    • Sicilian: cugnu
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: cògn
    • Ladin: cogn
    • Friulian: cugn
    • Ligurian: cun-gno, cun-ni, cuin
    • Lombard: cugn, cugne, cuni ⇒ cugneul, chigneul, qignœl
      Ossolano: ciugn
    • Piedmontese: cugn, cun-i, cuin-i
    • Venetian: cogn
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: couen, cugno, cugne
    • Old French: coin, coigne
      • French: coin
      • → Irish: cúinne
      • → Middle English: coyn, coign, coigne, coin, coygne, coyne, cune, koyne, kuyne, quyne
        • English: coin, quoin, coign
          • → Japanese: コイン (koin)
        • Scots: cuinyie, cunzie
      • → Scottish Gaelic: cùinn
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: cuny
    • Occitan: cunh, conh, cuenh
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: cuño, cruño
    • Portuguese: cunho
    • Spanish: cuño
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *cunea
    • Ibero-Romance:
      • Old Galician-Portuguese: cunna, cuna
        • Galician: cuña
        • Portuguese: cunha
      • Spanish: cuña
  • Borrowings:
    • → Albanian: kunj
    • → English: cuneus
    • → Italian: cuneo
    • → Portuguese: cúneo
    • → Proto-Brythonic: *kün
      • Middle Welsh: kyn
        • Welsh: cŷn

See also

  • cunīculus
  • cunnus
  • cōnus

References

  • “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
  • “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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