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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos).
Pronunciation
Noun
stomachus m (genitive stomachī); second declension
- gullet, alimentary canal
- (anatomy) stomach
- taste or distaste (depending on context)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “stomachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “stomachus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- stomachus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to excite a person's wrath: stomachum, bilem alicui movere