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English
Noun
mammo (plural mammos)
- (informal) Clipping of mammogram.
1989, Contemporary Obstetrics-gynecology, volume 33, page 200:One woman in ten is at risk — yet one-third of all women over 50 have never had a mammo! By making Pap tests routine, OBs and GYNs have saved many lives.
Anagrams
Gothic
Romanization
mammō
- Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐌼𐌼𐍉
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
mammo m (plural mammi)
- (informal) a man who has the role of a mother
Latin
Etymology
mamma (“breast”) + -ō
Pronunciation
Verb
mammō (present infinitive mammāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (Late Latin) to suckle (a baby)
Conjugation
Only attested in the present participle mammāns, but the existence of the verb is clear from the Romance descendants.
Descendants
References
- “mammo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mammo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.