mastoides
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek μᾰστοειδής (mastoeidḗs, “like a breast”), from μᾰστός (mastós, “a woman's breast”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-like, -oid”).
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mas.toˈi.des/, [mäst̪oˈiːd̪es]
Adjective
editmastoīdēs (neuter mastoīdes or mastoīdēs); third-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type) (New Latin)
- Shaped like a breast.
Inflection
editThird-declension one-termination adjective (Greek-type).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | mastoīdēs | mastoīdes1 mastoīdēs |
mastoīdēs | mastoīdia | |
Genitive | mastoīdis | mastoīdum mastoīdium | |||
Dative | mastoīdī | mastoīdibus | |||
Accusative | mastoīdem | mastoīdes1 mastoīdēs |
mastoīdēs | mastoīdia | |
Ablative | mastoīde mastoīdī |
mastoīdibus | |||
Vocative | mastoīdes1 mastoīdēs |
mastoīdēs | mastoīdia |
1It is unknown if Classical Latin preserved (or would have preserved) the shortness of the original Greek short ending.
Derived terms
editDescendants
editSpanish
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editmastoides (invariable)
Derived terms
editNoun
editmastoides m (plural mastoides)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mastoides”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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