gigerium
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin gigeria (“(plural) the cooked entrails of poultry”).
Noun edit
gigerium (plural gigeria)
- (anatomy) The gizzard of some birds.
- 1874, Elliott Coues, Birds of the Northwest, LARUS ARGENTATUS, page 650:
- The gigerium, in situ, is far back in the abdomen, its middle about opposite the last rib and to the left side, lying nearly apposed to the abdominal parietes
References edit
- “gigerium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Noun edit
gigērium n (genitive gigēriī or gigērī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gigērium | gigēria |
Genitive | gigēriī gigērī1 |
gigēriōrum |
Dative | gigēriō | gigēriīs |
Accusative | gigērium | gigēria |
Ablative | gigēriō | gigēriīs |
Vocative | gigērium | gigēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).