pulvinus

Borrowed from Latin pulvinus

pulvinus (plural pulvinae or pulvini)

1. (botany) A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.

• Adrian D. Bell, Plant Form (new ed.), Timber Press, 2008. →ISBN

Derived from pulvis (“dust, powder”) +‎ -īnus (“-ine”), for the filler of a pillow.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pulˈwiː.nus/, [pʊɫˈwiː.nʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pulˈvi.nus/, [pulˈviː.nus]

pulvīnus m (genitive pulvīnī); second declension

1. cushion, pillow, bolster
2. An elevated piece of arable land; a raised bed

Second declension.

• Old Leonese: [Term?]
  • Asturian: povin
• → English: pulvinus
• → Germanic: *pulwı̨̄
  • Old English: pylwe, pylu, pyle
    • Middle English: pilwe
      • English: pillow
        • → Maori: pera
      • Scots: pillae
      • ⇒ Middle English: *pilwebere (“pillowcase”)
        • English: pillowber
          • → Irish: piliúr, peiliúr
        • Scots: pillaebeir
  • Old Frisian: pēl
    • Saterland Frisian: Peel
  • Old Dutch: [Term?]
    • Dutch: peluw
  • Old High German: pfulawi
    • Middle High German: pfül, pfülwe
      • Alemannic German: Pfulme
      • German: Pfühl
      • Luxembourgish: Pillem

• pulvinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pulvinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulvinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pulvinus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• pulvinus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin