pancreas

See also: pancréas, páncreas, and pâncreas

English

Etymology

Existing in English since the sixteenth century: from Latin pancreas, from Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + κρέας (kréas, “flesh”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋkɹɪəs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpæŋ.kɹi.əs/, /ˈpæn-/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

explainer video about the human pancreas

pancreas (plural pancreases or pancreata)

1. (anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to help with food digestion. The fluid contains protease, carbohydrase and lipase, which breaks down larger molecules into smaller pieces. The pancreas also produces the hormones insulin and glucagon which regulate blood sugar. These hormones are released into the cardiovascular system.

   Synonyms: gutbread, stomach sweetbread, belly sweetbread

Derived terms

• pancreatectomy
• pancreatic
• pancreatitis

 

Translations

gland near the stomach

• Afrikaans: pankreas
• Albanian: pankreasi ?
• Arabic: بَنْكِرْيَاس m (bankiryās), مُعَثْكَلَة f (muʕaṯkala)

  Egyptian Arabic: بنكرياس m (benkeryas)

  Hijazi Arabic: بنكرياس m (binkiryās, bankiryās)

• Armenian: ենթաստամոքսային գեղձ (hy) (entʻastamokʻsayin geġj)
• Asturian: páncrees (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: məʼdəaltı vəzi
• Basque: are (eu), pankrea
• Bengali: অগ্ন্যাশয় (bn) (ognnaśoẏ)
• Bulgarian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Catalan: pàncrees (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Hakka: 禾鐮鐵／禾镰铁 (voˇ liamˇ tiedˋ)

  Hokkien: 腰尺 (zh-min-nan) (io-chhioh)

  Mandarin: 胰臟／胰脏 (zh) (yízàng), 胰腺 (zh) (yíxiàn)

• Czech: slinivka břišní (cs) f, pankreas (cs) m
• Danish: bugspytkirtel (da) c
• Dutch: alvleesklier (nl) f or m, buikspeekselklier (nl) ?, pancreas (nl) m or n
• Esperanto: pankreato
• Estonian: kõhunääre (et), pankreas (et)
• Faroese: bris n
• Finnish: haima (fi)
• French: pancréas (fr) m
• Galician: páncreas (gl) m
• Georgian: პანკრეასი (ṗanḳreasi), კუჭქვეშა ჯირკვალი (ḳuč̣kveša ǯirḳvali)
• German: Bauchspeicheldrüse (de) f, Pankreas (de) n
• Greek: πάγκρεας (el) n (págkreas)

  Ancient: πάγκρεας n (pánkreas)

• Hebrew: לבלב (he) m (lavláv)
• Hindi: अग्न्याशय (hi) m (agnyāśay)
• Hungarian: hasnyálmirigy (hu)
• Icelandic: bris (is) n, briskirtill (is) m
• Indonesian: pankreas (id)
• Ingrian: perna
• Interlingua: pancreas
• Irish: paincréas m
• Italian: pancreas (it) m
• Japanese: 膵臓 (ja) (すいぞう, suizō)
• Javanese: pankreas
• Kalmyk: нөр (nör)
• Kapampangan: kundilat, lape
• Kavalan: arim
• Kazakh: үйқы безі (üiqy bezı)
• Khmer: លំពែង (km) (lumpɛɛŋ)
• Korean: 췌장 (ko) (chwejang)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pankreas (ku) ?

• Lao: ຕັບອ່ອນ (tap ʼǭn)
• Latin: pancreas f
• Latvian: aizkuņģa dziedzeris m
• Lithuanian: kasa (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Pankreas n
• Macedonian: панкреас m (pankreas)
• Malay: pankreas (ms)
• Maltese: pankreas m, frixa f
• Maori: repe-taiaki-huka
• Marathi: स्वादुपिंड n (svādupiṇḍa)
• Mongolian: нойр булчирхай (nojr bulčirxaj)
• Navajo: alohkʼeʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bukspyttkjertel (no) m

  Nynorsk: bukspyttkjertel m

• Old English: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: لوزالمعده (fa), پانکراس (fa) (pânkrâs)
• Plautdietsch: Pluz f
• Polish: trzustka (pl) f
• Portuguese: pâncreas (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪੈਨਕਰੀਸ (painkarīs)
• Quechua: suyk'upin
• Romanian: pancreas (ro) n
• Russian: поджелу́дочная железа́ (ru) f (podželúdočnaja železá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гуштѐрача f

  Roman: guštèrača (sh) f

• Sicilian: pancreas ?
• Slovak: podžalúdková žľaza f
• Slovene: trebušna slinavka (sl) f
• Somali: ganac (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: brjušna slinica f

  Upper Sorbian: pankreas m, brjušna slinica f

• Spanish: páncreas (es) m
• Swahili: kongosho (sw) ?
• Swedish: bukspottkörtel (sv) c
• Tagalog: lapay
• Tamil: கணையம் (ta) (kaṇaiyam)
• Tarifit: inarfeḍ m
• Telugu: క్లోమము (te) (klōmamu)
• Thai: ตับอ่อน (th) (dtàp-ɔ̀ɔn)
• Turkish: pankreas (tr)
• Ukrainian: підшлункова залоза f (pidšlunkova zaloza)
• Vietnamese: tụy (vi), lá mía (vi)
• Volapük: pankreat
• Welsh: cefndedyn m
• Yami: lilas
• Yiddish: פּאַנקרעאַס n (pankreas)

See also

• diabetes
• digestion
• insulin

 

Anagrams

• Pre-Canas

Interlingua

Noun

pancreas (uncountable)

1. pancreas

Related terms

• pancreatic

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/
• Rhymes: -ankreas
• Hyphenation: pàn‧cre‧as

Noun

pancreas m (invariable)

1. pancreas

Derived terms

• pancreatico
• pancreatina
• pancreatite

 

Anagrams

• prenasca, spancerà

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πάγκρεας (pánkreas), from πᾶν (pân, “all”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/, [ˈpäŋkreäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpan.kre.as/, [ˈpäŋkreäs]

Noun

pancreas n (genitive pancreatis); third declension

1. (anatomy) pancreas

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pancreas	pancreatēs
Genitive	pancreatis	pancreatum
Dative	pancreatī	pancreatibus
Accusative	pancreatem	pancreatēs
Ablative	pancreate	pancreatibus
Vocative	pancreas	pancreatēs

Descendants

• → English: pancreas
• → Romanian: pancreas

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pancreas.

Noun

pancreas n (plural pancreasuri)

1. pancreas

Declension

Declension of pancreas

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) pancreas	pancreasul	(niște) pancreasuri	pancreasurile
genitive/dative	(unui) pancreas	pancreasului	(unor) pancreasuri	pancreasurilor
vocative	pancreasule		pancreasurilor