funis

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fūnis.

funis

1. A cord or a cord-like structure.
2. (medicine, specifically) Umbilical cord.

Possibly from *fudnis, from Proto-Italic *fondnis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie; bond, band”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.nis]

fūnis m (genitive fūnis); third declension

1. rope, cord, line

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• → English: funis (learned)
• Aromanian: funi
• Italian: fune
• Romanian: funie
• Sicilian: funi
• Sardinian: fune, funi
• Welsh: ffun

• “funis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "funis", 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)
• funis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• Hyphenation: fu‧nis

funis m

1. plural of funil