uterus

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See also: Uterus and utérus

English

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Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.təɹ.əs/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Hyphenation: u‧ter‧us

Noun

uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)

  1. (anatomy) The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.

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Descendants

  • → Czech: uterus
  • → Malay: uterus

Translations

womb — see womb

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English uterus, from Latin uterus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ute‧rus

Noun

uterus m inan

  1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
    Synonym: děloha

Declension

Declension of uterus (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
singular plural
nominative uterus utery
genitive uteru uterů
dative uteru uterům
accusative uterus utery
vocative utere utery
locative uteru uterech
instrumental uterem utery

Further reading

  • uterus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • uterus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Indonesian

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin uterus, from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

utèrus (first-person possessive uterusku, second-person possessive uterusmu, third-person possessive uterusnya)

  1. (anatomy, medicine, zoology) womb, uterus
    Synonyms: kandungan, peranakan, rahim

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Related terms

  • saudara (“sibling”, literally “from the same womb”)

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Latin

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
  2. fetus, newborn
  3. belly, paunch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative uterus uterī
Genitive uterī uterōrum
Dative uterō uterīs
Accusative uterum uterōs
Ablative uterō uterīs
Vocative utere uterī

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “uterus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 647

Further reading

  • “uterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “uterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • uterus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Malay

Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

Noun

uterus (Jawi spelling اوتروس, plural uterus-uterus, informal 1st possessive uterusku, 2nd possessive uterusmu, 3rd possessive uterusnya)

  1. (anatomy) Womb, uterus

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Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin uterus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uˈte.ɾus/
  • Hyphenation: u‧te‧rus

Noun

uterus (definite accusative uterusu, plural uteruslar)

  1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
    Synonyms: döl yatağı, (obsolete) meşime, rahim

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