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English
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.
Pronunciation
Noun
placenta (plural placentae or placentas )
Explainer video about the human placenta
( 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
( botany ) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.
Synonym: ( obsolete ) trophosperm
Coordinate terms
( animalian ) :
Derived terms
Translations
anatomy: placenta
Albanian: placentë f
Arabic: مَشِيمَة f ( mašīma ) , خَلَاص m ( ḵalāṣ ) , سُخْد m ( suḵd )
Armenian: ընկերք (hy) ( ənkerkʻ )
Asturian: placenta f
Azerbaijani: plasenta , ətənə , cift
Belarusian: плацэ́нта f ( placénta )
Bengali: অমরা (bn) ( omra )
Bikol Central: inulnan (bcl)
Bulgarian: плаце́нта f ( placénta )
Burmese: အချင်း (my) ( a.hkyang: )
Catalan: placenta (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 胎盤 / 胎盘 ( toi1 pun4-2 )
Mandarin: 胎盤 / 胎盘 (zh) ( tāipán )
Czech: placenta (cs) f
Danish: moderkage (da) c
Dupaningan Agta: enyanan
Dutch: moederkoek (nl) m , placenta (nl) f
Estonian: platsenta
Faroese: eftirburður m , fitilókur m , fylgi n , eftirferð f , móðurkøka f
Finnish: istukka (fi)
French: placenta (fr) m
Galician: placenta (gl) f
Georgian: პლაცენტა ( ṗlacenṭa )
German: Plazenta (de) f , Mutterkuchen (de) m
Greek: πλακούντας (el) m ( plakoúntas )
Ancient: χόριον n ( khórion )
Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה (he) f
Hindi: बीजांडासन m ( bījāṇḍāsan ) , अपरा (hi) f ( aprā ) , खेड़ी (hi) f ( kheṛī ) , गर्भनाल (hi) f ( garbhanāl ) , पुरइन (hi) ( purain ) , आंवल ( āmval )
Hungarian: méhlepény (hu)
Icelandic: fylgja (is) f , legkaka f
Irish: slánú m
Italian: placenta (it) f
Japanese: 胞衣 (ja) ( えな, ena ) , 後産 (ja) ( あとざん, atozan ) , 胎盤 (ja) ( たいばん, taiban )
Kalmyk: киисн ( kiisn )
Kashmiri: شِکَم ( śikam )
Kazakh: жолдас ( joldas ) , ұрықжолдас ( ūryqjoldas )
Khmer: សុក (km) ( sok )
Korean: 태반(胎盤) (ko) ( taeban )
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: hevalbiçûk (ku)
Kyrgyz: тон (ky) ( ton ) , чөп (ky) ( cöp )
Lao: ແຫ່ ( hǣ ) , ສະຫະຊາດ ( sa ha sāt )
Latvian: placenta f
Lithuanian: placenta f
Macedonian: плацента f ( placenta )
Malay: uri (ms) , plasenta
Maori: rehuwhāereere , ewe
Navajo: awééʼ biyaałáí
Norwegian:
Bokmål: morkake m or f
Nynorsk: morkake f
Pashto: اباڼه f ( abā́ṇa ) , انول m ( anól )
Persian: جفت جنین ( joft-e janin ) , جفت (fa) ( joft ) , مشیمه (fa) ( mašime ) , همراه (fa) ( hamrâh )
Polish: łożysko (pl) n
Portuguese: placenta (pt) f
Romanian: placentă (ro) f
Russian: плаце́нта (ru) f ( placénta ) , после́д (ru) m ( posléd )
Sanskrit: अमरा (sa) f ( amarā )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: по̏стељица f , пла̀це̄нта f
Roman: pȍsteljica (sh) f , plàcēnta (sh) f
Slovak: placenta (sk) f
Slovene: posteljica (sl) f
Spanish: placenta (es) f
Swedish: moderkaka (sv) c , placenta (sv)
Tagalog: inunan
Tajik: ҳамроҳ (tg) ( hamroh ) , ҳамроҳак ( hamrohak )
Tamil: பனிக்குடம் (ta) ( paṉikkuṭam )
Telugu: జరాయువు (te) ( jarāyuvu ) , మాయ (te) ( māya )
Thai: รก (th) ( rók )
Turkish: plasenta (tr) , etene (tr)
Ukrainian: плаце́нта f ( placénta )
Urdu: آن٘وَل (ur) f ( ā̃val )
Uyghur: ئەش ( esh )
Uzbek: yoʻldosh (uz)
Vietnamese: nhau (vi) , thực giá noãn , nhau thai
Waray-Waray: inulnan
Anagrams
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 )
( anatomy ) placenta
Catalan
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 )
( anatomy , botany ) placenta
Czech
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 )
placenta
Declension
Declension of placenta (hard feminine )
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin placenta .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/
Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
Rhymes: -ɛntaː
Noun
placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's )
placenta
Synonyms: moederkoek , nageboorte
Derived terms
Descendants
French
Pronunciation
Noun
placenta m (plural placentas )
placenta
Further reading
Galician
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 )
( anatomy , botany ) placenta
Interlingua
Noun
placenta (plural placentas )
placenta
Italian
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 )
( anatomy , botany ) placenta
Anagrams
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
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.
a dessert cake of any type
( New Latin ) ellipsis of placenta uterī : placenta
Declension
First-declension noun.
Quotations
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Descendants
( Borrowed through New Latin: )
Noun
placentā
ablative singular of placenta
References
^ 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
Portuguese
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 )
( anatomy , botany ) placenta
Serbo-Croatian
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 )
( anatomy ) placenta
Synonym: pȍsteljica
Declension
Further reading
“placenta ”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
placenta f (genitive singular placenty , nominative plural placenty , genitive plural placent , declension pattern of žena )
placenta
Further reading
Spanish
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 )
( anatomy , botany ) placenta
Derived terms
Further reading
Swedish
Noun
placenta c
( anatomy ) placenta
Synonym: ( more common ) moderkaka
( botany ) placenta
Declension
See also
References