cuna

• cûna (Reggiano)
• cùna (Modenese)

From Latin cūna.

• Hyphenation: cu‧na

cuna f (plural cuni)

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

• cunèr (Modenese)
• cunàr (Mirandolese)

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

cūnā̀ f (plural cūnōnī, possessed form cūnàr̃)

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

cūnā̀ (grade 1)

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

Inherited 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 culla, from a Vulgar Latin diminutive form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈku.na/
• Rhymes: -una
• Hyphenation: cù‧na

cuna f (plural cune) (literary and regional)

1. (literally and figuratively) cradle

   Synonym: culla

2. a cavity in the ground

   Synonym: cunetta

• culla

• Canu, nuca

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkuː.na]

cūna f (genitive cūnae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

See cūnae.

• “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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuː.nɑ/

cūna

1. genitive plural of cū

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuna/ [ˈku.na]

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• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: cu‧na

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

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

From Latin cūna, cūnae. Compare Italian culla.

cuna f (plural cune)

1. cradle

• cunar