placenta

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See also: placentă

English

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Etymology

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (womb cake), placenta uterina (uterine cake), from Latin placenta (flat cake), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

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Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

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  1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
    Synonyms: afterbirth, (of an animal, UK, dialectal) clean, (of an animal, obsolete) glean
  2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
    Synonym: (obsolete) trophosperm

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Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, flat).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, flat).

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (relational adjective placentální or placentární)

  1. placenta

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

  1. placenta
    Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

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Descendants

  • Indonesian: plasenta

French

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta m (plural placentas)

  1. placenta

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Galician

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, flat).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Interlingua

Noun

placenta (plural placentas)

  1. placenta

Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, flat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnta
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακοῦντα (plakoûnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, flat cake), from πλάξ (pláx, flat).

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

  1. a placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
  2. a dessert cake of any type
  3. (New Latin) ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative placenta placentae
genitive placentae placentārum
dative placentae placentīs
accusative placentam placentās
ablative placentā placentīs
vocative placenta placentae

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Descendants

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

Noun

placentā

  1. ablative singular of placenta

References

  1. ^ C. Grandjouan, Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Suppl. 23) (1989) 57-67

Further reading

  • placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, flat).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: pȍsteljica

Declension

Declension of placenta
singular plural
nominative plàcēnta placente
genitive placente plàcenātā/plàcēntī
dative placenti placentama
accusative placentu placente
vocative placento placente
locative placenti placentama
instrumental placentom placentama

Further reading

  • placenta”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovak

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Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

  1. placenta

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Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (cake), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, flat).

Pronunciation

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Swedish

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Noun

placenta c

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: (more common) moderkaka
  2. (botany) placenta

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