Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Pelvis

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PELVIS (πέλις). A basin, in the same extensive meaning as our own term; meaning thereby a large vessel of circular form and open circumference (hence patula, Juv. iii. 277.), intended to hold water for washing for all general purposes, whether persons or things; thus, as a generic term, including the special varieties, although they might be designated by an appropriate name of their own; as the hand-basin (malluvium, where see the illustration), the foot-basin (pelluvium, where an example is also given), and various others enumerated in the Classed Index. Non. Marc. s. v. p. 543. Varro, L. L. v. 119. Pet. Sat. 70. 8. Juv. vi. 441.