alvus

• From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewlos (“tube, hole”) with metathesis. Cognate with Ancient Greek αὐλός (aulós).

• Or from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to nourish”) + *-wós.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈal.wus/, [ˈaɫ.wʊs]

alvus f (genitive alvī); second declension

1. belly, bowels, paunch; excrement; flux, diarrhoea
2. stomach, digestive organs
3. womb; matrix (of a fruit)
4. hollow, cavity
5. hold or hull of a ship or boat
6. beehive

Second declension.

• (beehive): alvārium, alveārium, alveus, apiārium, cavea, mellārium
• (hollow, cavity): alveus, cavea, cavum
• (hold or hull of a ship): alveus

• alvārium
• alvārius (New Latin)
• alveus

• English: alvine
• Italian: alvo (literary), alvino

• alvus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alvus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alvus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• alvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette