antrum

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Cardiac antrum and pyloric antrum

Etymology

From Latin antrum, from Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron, cave). Doublet of antre.

Pronunciation

Noun

antrum (plural antrums or antra)

  1. (biology) A bodily cavity, especially one having bony walls, especially one in the sinuses.
    • 1964, GFF - Volume 86, page 343:
      In forms with a modified outer antral fence, both this and the adjacent distal band of the domiciliar wall may be concave and form the antrum (Figs. 6 J-K; 7 B), and in some forms the antrum apparently is formed by the dolon alone (dolonal antrum).

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄντρον (ántron, cave).

Pronunciation

Noun

antrum n (genitive antrī); second declension

  1. cave, cavern
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.166–168:
      Fronte sub adversā scopulīs pendentibus antrum;
      intus aquae dulcēs vīvōque sedīlia saxō:
      nymphārum domus.
      Under the facing cliff a cave with hanging rocks; inside , fresh waters and seats in natural stone: a home of nymphs.
  2. cavity, hollow
  3. tomb

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • Catalan: antre
  • English: antrum
  • Galician: antro
  • Italian: antro
  • Middle French: antre
  • Portuguese: antro
  • Spanish: antro

References

  • antrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • antrum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • antrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • antrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.