Feminine

cuna

Meaning

  1. (feminine, figuratively, literally, literary, regional) cradle
  2. (feminine, literary, regional) a cavity in the ground

Synonyms

Cuna

Translations

cuna

kuna

Kuna

cuna

Hyphenated as
cù‧na
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈku.na/
Etymology

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.

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