glande
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See also: glandé
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.
Noun
glande f (plural glandes)
- (biology) gland
- (medicine, non-technical) swollen lymph node
- (medicine, non-technical) tumor, growth
Derived terms
- glande apocrine
- glande bulbo-urétrale
- glande duodénale
- glande eccrine
- glande endocrine
- glande exocrine
- glande holocrine
- glande intestinale
- glande lacrymale
- glande mammaire
- glande mérocrine
- glande muqueuse
- glande parathyroïde
- glande parotide
- glande pinéale
- glande pituitaire
- glande salivaire
- glande sébacée
- glande sous-maxillaire
- glande sudoripare
- glande suprarénale
- glande surrénale
- glande thyroïde
- glande urétrale
- glande vestibulaire majeure
Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Deverbal of glander.
Noun
glande f (plural glandes)
- (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth
Further reading
- “glande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Galician
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ande
- Hyphenation: glan‧de
Noun
glande f (plural glandes)
Further reading
- “glande” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Interlingua
Noun
glande (plural glandes)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.
Pronunciation
Noun
glande m (plural glandi)
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
glande
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: glan‧de
Noun
glande f (plural glandes)
- glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)
Romanian
Pronunciation
Noun
glande f
- inflection of glandă:
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.
Pronunciation
Noun
glande m (plural glandes)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “glande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014