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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoy-no- (“lair, cradle”), from *ḱey- (“to lie down”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κοίτη (koítē).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.nae̯/, [ˈkuːnäe̯]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.ne/, [ˈkuːne]
Noun
[edit]cūnae f pl (genitive cūnārum); first declension (usually plural)
- cradle
- 8, Ovid, Fasti, book 6, line 167:
- Post illud nec aves cunas violasse feruntur,/ Et rediit puero, qui fuit ante, color.:
- After that, it is said, the birds did not violate the cradle, and to the boy returned his former color.
- 8, Ovid, Fasti, book 6, line 167:
- (metonymically) nest of young birds
- after 8, Ovid, Tristia, book 3, elegy 12, line 10:
- Utque malae crimen matris deponat hirundo,/ Sub trabibus cunas, parvaque tecta facit.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- after 8, Ovid, Tristia, book 3, elegy 12, line 10:
- (metonymically) birth or early childhood, infancy; compare cūnābulum
- 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 3, line 313:
- Furtim illum primis Ino matertera cunis/ Educat. inde datum Nymphae Nyseïdes antris/ Occuluere suis, lactisque alimenta dedere.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 9, line 67:
- Cunarum labor est angues superare mearum,/ Dixit: et, ut vincas alios, Acheloë, dracones,/ Pars quota Lernaeae serpens eris unus Echidnae?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 8, Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 3, line 313:
Usage notes
[edit]Although the singular forms (see cūna) do exist in Classical Latin, they were rarely used. The plural was normally used for a singular object.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun, plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | cūnae |
Genitive | cūnārum |
Dative | cūnīs |
Accusative | cūnās |
Ablative | cūnīs |
Vocative | cūnae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “cunae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cunae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cunae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “cunae”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cunae”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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