clivius

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *kliyos (“left”). De Vaan suggests that the term underwent a semantic shift from “sloped” to “awkward” before eventually coming to mean “ominous.” === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkliː.wi.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkliː.vi.us] === Adjective === clīvius (feminine clīvia, neuter clīvium); first/second-declension adjective inauspicious, ominous ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== clīvia avis clīvia auspicia === References === “clivius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “clivia avis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122