gingiva

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gingiva (“gums”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɪvə/, /d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪvə/
  • Rhymes: -aɪvə

Noun

gingiva (plural gingivae)

  1. (anatomy) The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone.

Derived terms

Translations

gum — see gum

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (compare English chew, Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“eat”), Polish żuję (“I chew”), Persian جویدن (javidan), Pashto ژول (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) gum (in which the teeth are set)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gingīva gingīvae
Genitive gingīvae gingīvārum
Dative gingīvae gingīvīs
Accusative gingīvam gingīvās
Ablative gingīvā gingīvīs
Vocative gingīva gingīvae

Descendants

References

  • “gingiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gingiva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gingiva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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