medulla
See also: médulla
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)
- The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
- (anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
- (anatomy, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
- (botany) The internal tissue of a plant.
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Translations edit
the inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones
the medulla oblongata
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Interlingua edit
Noun edit
medulla (plural medullas)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain, perhaps related to Latin medius, or Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdul.la/, [mɛˈd̪ʊlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈdul.la/, [meˈd̪ulːä]
Noun edit
medulla f (genitive medullae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | medulla | medullae |
Genitive | medullae | medullārum |
Dative | medullae | medullīs |
Accusative | medullam | medullās |
Ablative | medullā | medullīs |
Vocative | medulla | medullae |
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References edit
- “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- medulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- medulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum[1], pages 156–157