thorax

See also: Thorax

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EnglishEdit

Diagram showing the thorax of an insect.

EtymologyEdit

From Latin thorax, from Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”)

NounEdit

thorax (plural thoraces or thoraxes)

1. (anatomy) The region of the mammalian body between the neck and abdomen as well as the cavity containing the heart and lungs.
2. (entomology and arachnology) The middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• thoracal
• thoracic

• thoracic vertebra
• thoracoplasty

TranslationsEdit

region of the mammalian body

• Armenian: կրծքավանդակ (hy) (krckʿavandak)
• Catalan: tòrax (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸部 (zh) (xiōngbù), 胸廓 (zh) (xiōngkuò)

• Czech: hruď f, hrudník (cs) m
• Esperanto: torako
• Finnish: rintakehä (fi)
• French: thorax (fr) m
• German: Thorax (de) m
• Greek: θώρακας (el) m (thórakas)
• Hungarian: mellkas (hu)
• Icelandic: brjóst (is) n, brjóstkassi (is) m, brjósthol (is) n
• Ido: torako (io)
• Irish: tóracs m, cliabhrach m
• Japanese: 胸郭 (ja) (きょうかく, kyōkaku)
• Korean: 흉곽 (ko) (hyunggwak), 흉부 (ko) (hyungbu)

• Macedonian: гради f pl (grádi)
• Malay: toraks
• Maori: tārāuma, hōpara
• Polish: klatka piersiowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: tórax (pt) m
• Russian: грудна́я кле́тка (ru) f (grudnája klétka), то́ракс (ru) m (tóraks)
• Scottish Gaelic: broilleach m, cliabh m
• Slovene: toraks m, prsni koš (sl) m
• Spanish: tórax (es) m
• Swedish: thorax (sv), bröstkorg (sv)
• Tagalog: dughan
• Thai: อก (th) (òk)
• Vietnamese: ngực (vi), vòng một
• Volapük: blötakev (vo)
• Yiddish: ברוסטקאַסטן‎ m (brustkastn)

middle of three distinct divisions in an insect, crustacean or arachnid body

• Finnish: keskiruumis
• French: thorax (fr) m
• German: Thorax (de) m
• Greek: θώρακας (el) n (thórakas)
• Hungarian: tor (hu)
• Icelandic: frambolur m
• Irish: tóracs m

• Malay: toraks
• Polish: tułów (pl) m
• Portuguese: tórax (pt) m
• Russian: то́ракс (ru) m (tóraks)
• Slovene: toraks m, oprsje n
• Spanish: tórax (es) m

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FinnishEdit

NounEdit

thorax

1. thorax

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of thorax (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		thorax	thoraxit
genitive		thoraxin	thoraxien
partitive		thoraxia	thoraxeja
illative		thoraxiin	thoraxeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		thorax	thoraxit
accusative	nom.	thorax	thoraxit
	gen.	thoraxin
genitive		thoraxin	thoraxien
partitive		thoraxia	thoraxeja
inessive		thoraxissa	thoraxeissa
elative		thoraxista	thoraxeista
illative		thoraxiin	thoraxeihin
adessive		thoraxilla	thoraxeilla
ablative		thoraxilta	thoraxeilta
allative		thoraxille	thoraxeille
essive		thoraxina	thoraxeina
translative		thoraxiksi	thoraxeiksi
instructive		—	thoraxein
abessive		thoraxitta	thoraxeitta
comitative		—	thoraxeineen

SynonymsEdit

• (part of insect's body): keskiruumis

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FrenchEdit

NounEdit

thorax m (plural thorax)

1. thorax

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek θώραξ (thṓrax, “a breastplate, cuirass, corslet”)

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰoː.raks/

NounEdit

thōrax m (genitive thōrācis); third declension

1. (anatomy) chest, thorax
2. breastplate, cuirass
3. doublet, stomacher
4. bust (statue)

DeclensionEdit

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	thōrax	thōrācēs
genitive	thōrācis	thōrācum
dative	thōrācī	thōrācibus
accusative	thōrācem	thōrācēs
ablative	thōrāce	thōrācibus
vocative	thōrax	thōrācēs

SynonymsEdit

• (breastplate): lōrīca

ReferencesEdit

• thorax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• thorax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thorax” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• thorax in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia^[1]
• thorax in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thorax in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

thorax m (plural thoraxes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tórax (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).