femur
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
femur (plural femurs or femora)
- (anatomy) A thighbone.
- (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
- (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
thighbone — see thighbone
segment of insect’s leg
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Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found.[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛmʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
Noun edit
femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension
- thigh
- thighbone
- (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
- (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | femur | femina femora |
Genitive | feminis femoris |
feminum femorum |
Dative | feminī femorī |
feminibus femoribus |
Accusative | femur | femina femora |
Ablative | femine femore |
feminibus femoribus |
Vocative | femur | femina femora |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.mur/, [ˈfeːmʊr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.mur/, [ˈfɛːmur]
Verb edit
fēmur
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- femur 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)
- femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
femur n (plural femururi)
Declension edit
Declension of femur
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) femur | femurul | (niște) femururi | femururile |
genitive/dative | (unui) femur | femurului | (unor) femururi | femururilor |
vocative | femurule | femururilor |