pulvinar

Borrowed from Latin pulvīnar (“a cushion”).

pulvinar (plural pulvinars)

1. (anatomy) A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the human brain.
2. (obsolete) A pillow or cushion.

pulvinar (comparative more pulvinar, superlative most pulvinar)

1. Padded; formed like a cushion.

• parvulin

Related to pulvīnus (“pillow”), from pulvis (“dust, powder”).

pulvīnar n (genitive pulvīnaris); third declension

1. A couch for (images of) the gods

Third declension neuter “pure” i-stem.

• English: pulvinar
• Italian: pulvinare
• Spanish: pulvinar

• pulvinar in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulvinar in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulvinar in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to proclaim a public thanksgiving at all the street-shrines of the gods: supplicationem indicere ad omnia pulvinaria (Liv. 27. 4)
    
• pulvinar in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Latin pulvīnar.

• IPA^(key): /pulbiˈnaɾ/, [pulβiˈnaɾ]

pulvinar m (plural pulvinares)

1. (anatomy) pulvinar