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placenta

See also: placentă

English

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Etymology

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Elision for phrases such as New Latin placenta uterī (“womb cake”), placenta uterina (“uterine cake”), from Latin placenta (“flat cake”), because of the flat round shape of the afterbirth.

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placenta (plural placentae or placentas)

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  1. (anatomy) An organ in most mammals during gestation that supplies food and oxygen to the foetus and passes back waste. It is on the wall of the uterus and links to the foetus through the umbilical cord. It is expelled after birth.
    Synonym: afterbirth
  2. (botany) In flowering plants, the part of the ovary where ovules develop; in non-flowering plants where the spores develop.

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

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placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy) placenta

Catalan

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

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placenta f (plural placentes)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

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placenta f

  1. placenta

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Declension of placenta (hard feminine)
singular plural
nominative placenta placenty
genitive placenty placent
dative placentě placentám
accusative placentu placenty
vocative placento placenty
locative placentě placentách
instrumental placentou placentami

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Borrowed from Latin placenta.

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placenta f (plural placentae or placenta's)

  1. placenta
    Synonyms: moederkoek, nageboorte

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  • → Indonesian: plasenta

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placenta m (plural placentas)

  1. placenta

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Galician

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

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placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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placenta (plural placentas)

  1. placenta
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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta, “flat”).

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  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛn.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɛnta
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cèn‧ta

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placenta f (plural placente)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta
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Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), πλακοῦντα (plakoûnta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis), πλακοῦς (plakoûs, “flat cake”), from πλάξ (pláx, “flat”).

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placenta f (genitive placentae); first declension

  1. a placenta cake; a round cake with a ribbed base and a convex top with a knob in the middle and a honey and cheese filling.[1]
  2. a dessert cake of any type
  3. (New Latin) Ellipsis of placenta uterī: placenta

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative placenta placentae
Genitive placentae placentārum
Dative placentae placentīs
Accusative placentam placentās
Ablative placentā placentīs
Vocative placenta placentae

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(Borrowed through New Latin:)

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placentā

  1. ablative singular of placenta

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  1. ^ C. Grandjouan, Hellenistic Relief Molds from the Athenian Agora (Hesperia Suppl. 23) (1989) 57-67

Further reading

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  • “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “placenta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • placenta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “placenta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  •   Placenta cake on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

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placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta). Doublet of palačinka.

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  • IPA(key): /plǎt͡seːnta/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cen‧ta

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plàcēnta f (Cyrillic spelling пла̀це̄нта)

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: pȍsteljica

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Declension of placenta
singular plural
nominative plàcēnta placente
genitive placente plàcenātā/plàcēntī
dative placenti placentama
accusative placentu placente
vocative placento placente
locative placenti placentama
instrumental placentom placentama

Slovak

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placenta f (genitive singular placenty, nominative plural placenty, genitive plural placent, declension pattern of žena)

  1. placenta

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  • “placenta”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

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Etymology

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Borrowed from New Latin placenta, from Latin placenta (“cake”), from Ancient Greek πλακόεντα (plakóenta), accusative of πλακόεις (plakóeis, “flat”).

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  • IPA(key): (Spain) /plaˈθenta/ [plaˈθẽn̪.t̪a]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /plaˈsenta/ [plaˈsẽn̪.t̪a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -enta
  • Syllabification: pla‧cen‧ta

Noun

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placenta f (plural placentas)

  1. (anatomy, botany) placenta

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Swedish

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placenta c

  1. (anatomy) placenta
    Synonym: (more common) moderkaka
  2. (botany) placenta

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Declension of placenta 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative placenta placentan placentor placentorna
Genitive placentas placentans placentors placentornas

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