The corpus record — Latin

pelvis

a basin

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Where it lives

Epilogus 1 · 74.07/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
Adversus Hermogenem 2 · 1.8/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
De agri cultura 2 · 1.28/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pelvis — Lewis & Short

pelvis, is (

acc. pelvim;

I v. in the foll., and cf. Prisc. p. 757 P.; abl. pelvi and pelve), f. Sanscr. pālavi; Gr. pelli/s, a bowl. a basin, laver; acc. pelvim, Laber. ap. Non. 543, 27; Caecil. ib. 28: patulas effundere pelves, Juv. 3, 271: tot pelves pulsari, id. 6, 441; abl. pelvi, Plin. 31, 3, 27, § 46; 28, 8, 27, § 104: unguentum in argenteā pelve, Petr. 70; Plin. 30, 2, 5, § 14; Vulg. Johan. 13, 5.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. peluis (scan pp. 470-471; entry #1292). Root candidates: *pelVwi-, *pelwi-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. péluis (scan p. 518; entry #8475).

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