pubis

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpju.bɪs/

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pubis (plural pubes)

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

   Synonym: pubic bone

• ilium
• ischium

• bone

• “pubis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “pubis”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /puˈbis/

pubis m

1. pubic hair

pubis

1. inessive singular of pubi

Borrowed from Latin pubis, the genitive of pubes (“pubic hair”). The noun was generalized from medical Latin expressions such as os pubis, the pubic bone.

• IPA^(key): /py.bis/

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pubis m (invariable)

1. pubis; pubes

• “pubis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

pūbis

1. genitive singular of pūbēs

Borrowed from French pubis.

pubis n (plural pubise)

1. pubis

• IPA^(key): /ˈpubis/ [ˈpu.β̞is]
• Rhymes: -ubis
• Syllabification: pu‧bis

pubis m (plural pubis)

1. pubis

• “pubis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025