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)

  1. (biology) gland
  2. (medicine, non-technical) swollen lymph node
  3. (medicine, non-technical) tumor, growth
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Romanian: glandă
  • → Russian: гла́нда (glánda) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Deverbal of glander.

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

  1. (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth

Further reading

Galician

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (standard) /ˈɡlande/
  • IPA(key): (gheada) /ˈħlande/

  • Rhymes: -ande
  • Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

  1. gland

Further reading

Interlingua

Noun

glande (plural glandes)

  1. acorn

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlan.de/
  • Rhymes: -ande
  • Hyphenation: glàn‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandi)

  1. glans

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

glande

  1. ablative singular of glāns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

  1. acorn (fruit of the oak tree)
    Synonyms: bolota, bálano
  2. glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

glande f

  1. inflection of glandă:
    1. indefinite plural
    2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlande/
  • Rhymes: -ande
  • Syllabification: glan‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandes)

  1. (anatomy) glans penis

Derived terms

Further reading

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