fovea
See also: fovéa
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).
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Noun edit
fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)
- (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
- Coordinate term: lacuna
- (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.
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Finnish edit
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Noun edit
fovea
Declension edit
Inflection of fovea (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | fovea | foveat | ||
genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten | ||
partitive | foveaa | foveoita | ||
illative | foveaan | foveoihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | fovea | foveat | ||
accusative | nom. | fovea | foveat | |
gen. | fovean | |||
genitive | fovean | foveoiden foveoitten foveainrare | ||
partitive | foveaa | foveoita | ||
inessive | foveassa | foveoissa | ||
elative | foveasta | foveoista | ||
illative | foveaan | foveoihin | ||
adessive | fovealla | foveoilla | ||
ablative | fovealta | foveoilta | ||
allative | fovealle | foveoille | ||
essive | foveana | foveoina | ||
translative | foveaksi | foveoiksi | ||
abessive | foveatta | foveoitta | ||
instructive | — | foveoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
fovea f (plural fovee)
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Further reading edit
- fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin edit
Etymology edit
De Vaan dismisses any relation with Ancient Greek χειά (kheiá, “serpent's den”), and leaves the origin open. He notes that favissae (“underground cellars”) may or may not be related.[1]
Older theories derived the word from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰow- (“pit, hole”) (compare Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly”)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.u̯e.a/, [ˈfou̯eä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfo.ve.a/, [ˈfɔːveä]
Noun edit
fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fovea | foveae |
Genitive | foveae | foveārum |
Dative | foveae | foveīs |
Accusative | foveam | foveās |
Ablative | foveā | foveīs |
Vocative | fovea | foveae |
Derived terms edit
- foveālis (Renaissance Latin)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “fŏvĕa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 1. FOVEA 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)
- 2. FOVEA 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)
- “fovea”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fŏvĕa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 684/2.
- “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 450/1
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237