noun, feminine/ˈkuna/plural: cunas
cradle, crib; homeland; lineage, family, heritage; origin, beginning
“...constituía una variadísima galería de tipos humanos que abarcaba desde los más sórdidos subsuelos del hampa hasta las más acrisoladas cunas de la aristocracia europea...” — ...it comprised a most varied gallery of different types of humans that spanned from the dirtiest substrata of the underworld to the most refined families of the European aristocracy...
Synonyms: patria, origen
Inherited from Old Spanish cuna, from Latin cūna, cūnae, from Proto-Italic *koinā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoyneh₂, derived from the root *ḱey- (“to be lying down; to settle”).