"clivus" meaning in English

See clivus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈklaɪvəs/ Forms: clivi [plural]
Etymology: From Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ḱley-|id=incline}}, {{der|en|la|clīvus||slope, hill}} Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”) Head templates: {{en-noun|clivi}} clivus (plural clivi)
  1. (anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward. Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-clivus-en-noun-UkGQEWZ2 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  2. (historical) A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome. Tags: historical
    Sense id: en-clivus-en-noun-L4vHXsRT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 69 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 28 72 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 29 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: clival Related terms: client, climate, climax, clinic, clinoid, decline, incline, recline

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clival"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱley-",
        "id": "incline"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "clīvus",
        "4": "",
        "5": "slope, hill"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clivi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clivi"
      },
      "expansion": "clivus (plural clivi)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cli‧vus"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "client"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "climate"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "climax"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clinic"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "clinoid"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "decline"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "incline"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "recline"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "Healthcare",
            "All topics",
            "Health",
            "Fundamental",
            "Body"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward."
      ],
      "id": "en-clivus-en-noun-UkGQEWZ2",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "cranium",
          "cranium"
        ],
        [
          "skull",
          "skull"
        ],
        [
          "base",
          "base"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "dorsum sellae",
          "dorsum sellae"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "29 71",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome."
      ],
      "id": "en-clivus-en-noun-L4vHXsRT",
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "slope",
          "slope"
        ],
        [
          "Ancient Rome",
          "Ancient Rome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈklaɪvəs/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Clivus (anatomy)"
  ],
  "word": "clivus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley- (incline)",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "clival"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ḱley-",
        "id": "incline"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "clīvus",
        "4": "",
        "5": "slope, hill"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clivi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "clivi"
      },
      "expansion": "clivus (plural clivi)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "cli‧vus"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "client"
    },
    {
      "word": "climate"
    },
    {
      "word": "climax"
    },
    {
      "word": "clinic"
    },
    {
      "word": "clinoid"
    },
    {
      "word": "decline"
    },
    {
      "word": "incline"
    },
    {
      "word": "recline"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "cranium",
          "cranium"
        ],
        [
          "skull",
          "skull"
        ],
        [
          "base",
          "base"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "dorsum sellae",
          "dorsum sellae"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "road",
          "road"
        ],
        [
          "slope",
          "slope"
        ],
        [
          "Ancient Rome",
          "Ancient Rome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical) A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈklaɪvəs/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Clivus (anatomy)"
  ],
  "word": "clivus"
}

Download raw JSONL data for clivus meaning in English (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.