vesica

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae)

  1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
  2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

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Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

  1. bladder

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

Noun

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

  1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder
    vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative vēsīca vēsīcae
genitive vēsīcae vēsīcārum
dative vēsīcae vēsīcīs
accusative vēsīcam vēsīcās
ablative vēsīcā vēsīcīs
vocative vēsīca vēsīcae

Derived terms

Descendants

(See also vessīca.)

  • Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
  • → English: vesica
  • → Romanian: vezică

References

Further reading

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