Etymograph

English

pubis

Pubis comes from Latin pubes ‘the pubic hair’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpubes‘the pubic hair’
  2. Englishtodaypubis

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpubes‘the pubic hair’
  2. Englishtodaypubis

The story

Genitive of Latin pubes (“the pubic hair”, collective). The noun was generalized from medical Latin os pubis, the pubic bone.

Linked words

through Latin pubes ‘the pubic hair’

puberty, pubes, putz, 4 more

Today it means

noun The pubic bone; the part of the hipbone forming the front arch of the pelvis.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin pubes / pubis

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