# cuna
## Emilian
### Alternative forms

* cûna (Reggiano)
* cùna (Modenese)

### Etymology

From Latin cūna.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: cu‧na

### Noun

cuna f (plural cuni)
* (Mirandola) cradle, crib (bed for a baby)

#### Derived terms

* cunèr (Modenese)
* cunàr (Mirandolese)

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡ʃúː.nàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [t͡ʃúː.nàː]

### Noun

cūnā̀ f (plural cūnōnī, possessed form cūnàr̃)
* A side seam joining the lower ends of a gown.

### Verb

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

## Italian
### 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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈku.na/
* Rhymes: -una
* Hyphenation: cù‧na

### Noun

cuna f (plural cune) (literary and regional)
* (literally and figuratively) cradle
    Synonym: culla
* a cavity in the ground
    Synonym: cunetta

#### Related terms

* culla

### Anagrams

* Canu, nuca

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkuː.na/, [ˈkuːnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈku.na/, [ˈkuːnä]

### Noun

cūna f (genitive cūnae); first declension
* (rare) singular of cūnae
* a crib (for infant)

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

### References

* “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.

## Primitive Irish
### Romanization

cuna
* Romanization of ᚉᚒᚅᚐ

## Spanish
### Etymology

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”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkuna/ [ˈku.na]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -una
* Syllabification: cu‧na

### Noun

cuna f (plural cunas)
* cradle, crib
* homeland
    Synonym: patria
* 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...
* origin, beginning
    Synonym: origen

#### Derived terms

* acunar
* asaltacunas
* canción de cuna
* canto de cuna
* casa cuna
* lo que se aprende en la cuna, siempre dura

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology

From Latin cūna, cūnae. Compare Italian culla.

### Noun

cuna f (plural cune)
* cradle

#### Related terms

* cunar