glande

See also: glandé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ̃d/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (biology) gland
2. (medicine, non-technical) swollen lymph node
3. (medicine, non-technical) tumor, growth

Derived terms

• glande apocrine
• glande bulbo-urétrale
• glande duodénale
• glande eccrine
• glande endocrine
• glande exocrine
• glande holocrine
• glande intestinale
• glande lacrymale
• glande mammaire
• glande mérocrine
• glande muqueuse
• glande parathyroïde
• glande parotide
• glande pinéale
• glande pituitaire
• glande salivaire
• glande sébacée
• glande sous-maxillaire
• glande sudoripare
• glande suprarénale
• glande surrénale
• glande thyroïde
• glande urétrale
• glande vestibulaire majeure

Related terms

• gland

Descendants

• → Romanian: glandă
• → Russian: гла́нда (glánda) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Deverbal of glander.

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth

Further reading

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

Galician

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlande/ [ˈɡlan̪.d̪ɪ]

• IPA^(key): (standard) /ˈɡlande/ [ˈɡlan̪.d̪ɪ]
• IPA^(key): (gheada) /ˈħlande/ [ˈħlan̪.d̪ɪ]

• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. gland

Further reading

• “glande”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Interlingua

Noun

glande (plural glandes)

1. acorn

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/
• Rhymes: -ande
• Hyphenation: glàn‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandi)

1. glans

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡɫ̪än̪d̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡlän̪d̪e]

Noun

glande

1. ablative singular of glāns

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃.d͡ʒi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃.d͡ʒi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃.de/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃.dɨ/

• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. acorn (fruit of the oak tree)

   Synonyms: bolota, bálano

2. glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡlande]

Noun

glande f

1. inflection of glandă:
   1. indefinite plural
   2. indefinite genitive/dative singular

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlande/ [ˈɡlãn̪.d̪e]
• Rhymes: -ande
• Syllabification: glan‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandes)

1. (anatomy) glans penis

Derived terms

• glande del clítoris
• glande del pene

Further reading

• “glande”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10