clivus

From Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪvəs/
• Hyphenation: cli‧vus

clivus (plural clivi)

1. (anatomy) Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward.
2. (historical) A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome.

• clival

• client
• climate
• climax
• clinic
• clinoid
• decline
• incline
• recline

From Proto-Italic *kleiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱleywós, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”) (Latin clīnō, English lean) + *-wós (Latin -vus).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkliː.u̯us/, [ˈklʲiːu̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkli.vus/, [ˈkliːvus]

clīvus m (genitive clīvī); second declension

1. a slope, hill, rise

Second-declension noun.

• acclīvis
• clīvōsus
• clīvulus

• clīnātus
• clīnō

• English: clivus
• Italian: clivo

• “clivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “clivus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.