ilium

¹

[il-ee-uhm]

noun

Anatomy.

plural

ilia 

1. the broad, upper portion of either hipbone.

Ilium

²

[il-ee-uhm]

noun

1. Latin name of ancient Troy.

Ilium

¹

/ ˈɪlɪəm /

noun

1. the Latin name for ancient Troy

ilium

²

/ ˈɪlɪəm /

noun

1. the uppermost and widest of the three sections of the hipbone

ilium

plural

ilia 

1. The uppermost and widest of the three bones that fuse together to form each of the hipbones.

2. See more at skeleton

Other Word Forms

• preilium noun
• subilium noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of ilium¹

1705–1710; < New Latin, special use of Medieval Latin īlium, as singular of Latin īlia; ileum

Example Sentences

Only seven months after those Games, Ilia Malinin landed the world’s first quadruple axel in competition at 17 years old.

From Los Angeles Times

Former featherweight champion Ilia Topuria vacated his belt in February to move up to lightweight.

From BBC

“You would walk over it. You might even tread on it without knowing it,” said Ilia Leitch, a plant evolutionary biologist and senior research leader at the U.K.’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s utterly pernicious,” Hans Gutbrod, a professor of public policy at Ilia State University in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, said of the bill.

From Los Angeles Times

However, just fishing out plausible signaling molecules, such as proteins, from the blood isn’t enough, says molecular biologist Ilia Droujinine of Scripps Research.

From Science Magazine