pulvinar

American  

[puhl-vahy-ner] / pʌlˈvaɪ nər /

noun

plural

pulvinaria

1. (in ancient Rome)

   1. a cushioned couch kept in readiness for any visitation of a god.

   2. a cushioned seat at a circus.

2. Also called pulvinus.  (on an Ionic capital) either of two convex forms having on their ends two of the volutes.

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adjective

1. pulvinate.

Etymology

Origin of pulvinar

1590–1600; (noun) < Latin pulvīnar cushioned couch, equivalent to pulvīn ( us ) cushion + -ar, shortening of -āre, neuter of āris -ar ¹; (adj.) pulvin(us) + -ar ¹

Example Sentences

Tyborowska, A., Volman, I., Smeekens, S., Toni, I. & Roelofs, K. Testosterone during puberty shifts emotional control from pulvinar to anterior prefrontal cortex.

From Nature • Feb. 20, 2018

This stripe results from a layer of nerve-fibres, many of which are 409 axones from the neurones of the lateral geniculate body and the pulvinar, the grey masses directly connected with the optic nerve-fibres.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

Cubabat postea super nuda petra Cassula amictus madida Saxum fuit ejus pulvinar Sic arcebat a corpore remissionem.

From A Hymn on the Life, Virtues and Miracles of St. Patrick Composed by his Disciple, Saint Fiech, Bishop of Sletty by Fiech, Saint

He left a number of "togae" to his Oxford friends, including Robert Holler, the son of his Norfolk neighbour, to whom he also bequeathed "unum pulvinar vocatum le bolstar."

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.

“Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus: Nunc saliaribus Ornare pulvinar Deorum Tempus erit dapibus sodales.”

From Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness by Samber, Robert