vesica
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
vesica (plural vesicae)
- (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
- (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- vesica biliaris
- vesica fellea
- vesical
- vesica piscis
- vesica urinaria
- vesicle (-le diminutive)
- vesicula (-ula diminutive via Latin)
Translations edit
bladder
Anagrams edit
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
vesica (plural vesicas)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯eːˈsiː.ka/, [u̯eːˈs̠iːkä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /veˈsi.ka/, [veˈs̬iːkä]
Noun edit
vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension
- (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder
- vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vēsīca | vēsīcae |
| Genitive | vēsīcae | vēsīcārum |
| Dative | vēsīcae | vēsīcīs |
| Accusative | vēsīcam | vēsīcās |
| Ablative | vēsīcā | vēsīcīs |
| Vocative | vēsīca | vēsīcae |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
(See also vessīca.)
- Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
- Occitan: vesiga (Ségala)
- → English: vesica
- → Romanian: vezică
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 341
Further reading edit
- “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.