placenta

See also: placentă

English

Etymology

Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

Pronunciation

• enPR: plə-sĕn'tə, IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛntə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛntə

Noun

placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

explainer video about the human placenta

1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.

   Synonym: afterbirth

2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

Coordinate terms

(animalian):

• amnion, amnio-
• chorion, chorio-

Derived terms

• placento- (and derivatives therefrom)
• placenta cake
• placenta praevia
• placental
• placentary
• placentiferous

Translations

anatomy: placenta

• Albanian: placentë f
• Arabic: مَشِيمَة f (mašīma), خَلَاص m (ḵalāṣ), سُخْد m (suḵd)
• Armenian: ընկերք (hy) (ənkerkʻ)
• Asturian: placenta f
• Azerbaijani: plasenta, ətənə, cift
• Belarusian: плацэ́нта f (placénta)
• Bengali: অমরা (omra)
• Bikol Central: inulnan (bcl)
• Bulgarian: плаце́нта f (placénta)
• Burmese: အချင်း (my) (a.hkyang:)
• Catalan: placenta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 胎盤／胎盘 (toi¹ pun^4-2)

  Mandarin: 胎盤／胎盘 (zh) (tāipán)

• Czech: placenta (cs) f
• Danish: moderkage (da) c
• Dupaningan Agta: enyanan
• Dutch: moederkoek (nl) m, placenta (nl) f
• Estonian: platsenta
• Faroese: eftirburður m, fitilókur m, fylgi n, eftirferð f, móðurkøka f
• Finnish: istukka (fi)
• French: placenta (fr) m
• Galician: placenta (gl) f
• Georgian: პლაცენტა (ṗlacenṭa)
• German: Plazenta (de) f, Mutterkuchen (de) m
• Greek: πλακούντας (el) m (plakoúntas)

  Ancient: χόριον n (khórion)

• Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה (he) f
• Hindi: बीजांडासन m (bījāṇḍāsan), अपरा (hi) f (aprā), खेड़ी (hi) f (kheṛī), गर्भनाल (hi) f (garbhanāl), पुरइन (hi) (purain), आंवल (āmval)
• Hungarian: méhlepény (hu)
• Icelandic: fylgja (is) f, legkaka f
• Irish: slánú m
• Italian: placenta (it) f
• Japanese: 胞衣 (ja) (えな, ena), 後産 (ja) (あとざん, atozan), 胎盤 (ja) (たいばん, taiban)
• Kazakh: жолдас (joldas), ұрықжолдас (ūryqjoldas)
• Khmer: សុក (km) (sok)
• Korean: 태반(胎盤) (ko) (taeban)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hevalbiçûk (ku)

• Kyrgyz: тон (ky) (ton), чөп (ky) (cöp)
• Lao: ແຫ່ (hǣ), ສະຫະຊາດ (sa ha sāt)
• Latvian: placenta f
• Lithuanian: placenta f
• Macedonian: плацента f (placenta)
• Malay: uri, plasenta
• Maori: rehuwhāereere, ewe
• Navajo: awééʼ biyaałáí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morkake m or f

  Nynorsk: morkake f

• Pashto: اباڼه f (abā́ṇa), انول m (anól)
• Persian: جفت جنین (joft-e janin), جفت (fa) (joft), مشیمه (fa) (mašime), همراهک (hamrâhak)
• Polish: łożysko (pl) n
• Portuguese: placenta (pt) f
• Romanian: placentă (ro) f
• Russian: плаце́нта (ru) f (placénta), после́д (ru) m (posléd)
• Sanskrit: अमरा (sa) f (amarā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: по̏стељица f, пла̀це̄нта f

  Roman: pȍsteljica (sh) f, plàcēnta (sh) f

• Slovak: placenta (sk) f
• Slovene: posteljica (sl) f
• Spanish: placenta (es) f
• Swedish: moderkaka (sv) c, placenta (sv)
• Tagalog: inunan
• Tajik: ҳамроҳ (tg) (hamroh), ҳамроҳак (hamrohak)
• Tamil: பனிக்குடம் (ta) (paṉikkuṭam)
• Telugu: జరాయువు (te) (jarāyuvu), మాయ (te) (māya)
• Thai: รก (th) (rók)
• Turkish: plasenta (tr), etene (tr)
• Ukrainian: плаце́нта f (placénta)
• Uyghur: ئەش (esh)
• Uzbek: yoʻldosh (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhau (vi), thực giá noãn, nhau thai
• Waray-Waray: inulnan

botany

• Catalan: placenta (ca) f
• Galician: placenta (gl) f
• Romanian: placentă (ro) f
• Russian: семяно́сец (ru) m (semjanósec)
• Spanish: placenta (es) f

Anagrams

• Tlapanec, pantacle

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pləˈsen.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [plaˈsen.ta]

Noun

placenta f (plural placentes)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡sɛnta]

Noun

placenta f

1. placenta

Declension

Declension of placenta (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	placenta	placenty
genitive	placenty	placent
dative	placentě	placentám
accusative	placentu	placenty
vocative	placento	placenty
locative	placentě	placentách
instrumental	placentou	placentami

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placenta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌplaːˈsɛn.taː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta
• Rhymes: -ɛntaː

Noun

placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

1. placenta

   Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

Derived terms

• placentadier

Related terms

• moederkoek

Descendants

• → Indonesian: plasenta

French

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

placenta m (plural placentas)

1. placenta

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Interlingua

Noun

placenta (plural placentas)

1. placenta

Related terms

• placental

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɛnta
• Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placente)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Related terms

• placenta previa
• placentare

Anagrams

• placante

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακούντα (plakoúnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /plaˈken.ta/, [pɫ̪äˈkɛn̪t̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plaˈt͡ʃen.ta/, [pläˈt͡ʃɛn̪t̪ä]

Noun

placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

1. a placenta cake; a round phyllo cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.
2. a dessert cake of any type
3. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	placenta	placentae
Genitive	placentae	placentārum
Dative	placentae	placentīs
Accusative	placentam	placentās
Ablative	placentā	placentīs
Vocative	placenta	placentae

Descendants

• Aromanian: plãtsintã
• Romanian: plăcintă (see there for further descendants)

(Borrowed through New Latin:)

• → Asturian: placenta
• → Bulgarian: плацента (placenta)
• → Catalan: placenta
• → Czech: placenta
• → Dutch: placenta
• → English: placenta
• → French: placenta
• → Galician: placenta
• → German: Plazenta
• → Italian: placenta
• → Portuguese: placenta
• → Romanian: placentă
• → Russian: плацента (placenta)
• → Spanish: placenta
• → Vilamovian: płoc

Noun

placentā

1. ablative singular of placenta

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.tɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /plaˈsẽ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /plɐˈsẽ.tɐ/

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
• Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

1. (anatomy) placenta

   Synonym: pȍsteljica

Declension

Declension of placenta

	singular	plural
nominative	plàcēnta	placente
genitive	placente	plàcenātā/plàcēntī
dative	placenti	placentama
accusative	placentu	placente
vocative	placento	placente
locative	placenti	placentama
instrumental	placentom	placentama

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡senta]

Noun

placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

1. placenta

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -enta
• Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

placenta f (plural placentas)

1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Derived terms

• placenta previa
• placentario

 

Further reading

• “placenta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

placenta c

1. (anatomy) placenta

   Synonym: (more common) moderkaka

2. (botany) placenta

Declension

Declension of placenta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	placenta	placentan	placentor	placentorna
Genitive	placentas	placentans	placentors	placentornas

References

• placenta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• placenta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)