thorax

See also: Thorax

English

Diagram showing the thorax of an insect.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: thôr'aks, IPA^(key): /ˈθɔɹæks/

Noun

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 to which the legs are attached.

Derived terms

• thoracal
• thoracic
• thoracic vertebra
• thoracoplasty

 

Translations

region of the mammalian body

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

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

• Czech: hruď (cs) f, hrudník (cs) m
• Dutch: borst (nl), borstkas (nl)
• Esperanto: torako
• Finnish: rintakehä (fi)
• French: thorax (fr) m
• Galician: tórax m, arca (gl) f
• 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
• Italian: torace (it) m, petto (it) m

• Japanese: 胸郭 (ja) (きょうかく, kyōkaku)
• Korean: 흉곽 (ko) (hyunggwak), 흉부 (ko) (hyungbu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sing (ku) m

• Lombard: torax m, peit m
• Macedonian: гради f pl (gradi)
• Malay: toraks
• Malayalam: നെഞ്ച് (ml) (neñcŭ)
• Maori: tārāuma, hōpara
• Occitan: torax (oc) m
• Polish: klatka piersiowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: tórax (pt) m
• Russian: грудна́я кле́тка (ru) f (grudnája klétka), то́ракс (ru) m (tóraks)
• Sanskrit: वक्षस् (sa) n (vakṣas)
• Santali: ᱠᱚᱲᱟᱢ (kôṛam)
• Scottish Gaelic: broilleach m, cliabh m
• Slovene: toraks m, prsni koš (sl) m
• Spanish: tórax (es) m
• Swedish: thorax (sv), bröstkorg (sv)
• Tagalog: dibdib (tl)
• Thai: อก (th) (òk)
• Vietnamese: ngực (vi), vòng một
• Yiddish: ברוסטקאַסטן‎ m (brustkastn)

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

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

• Malay: toraks
• Maori: tārāuma
• 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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Finnish

Noun

thorax

1. thorax

Declension

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

Possessive forms of thorax (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	thoraxini	thoraximme
2nd person	thoraxisi	thoraxinne
3rd person	thoraxinsa

Synonyms

• (part of insect's body): keskiruumis

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ʁaks/

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Noun

thorax m (plural thorax)

1. thorax

Further reading

• “thorax” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰoː.raks/, [ˈt̪ʰoːräks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.raks/, [ˈt̪ɔːräks]

Noun

thōrax m (genitive thōrācis); third declension

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thōrax	thōrācēs
Genitive	thōrācis	thōrācum
Dative	thōrācī	thōrācibus
Accusative	thōrācem	thōrācēs
Ablative	thōrāce	thōrācibus
Vocative	thōrax	thōrācēs

Synonyms

• (breastplate): lōrīca

Descendants

• → Catalan: tòrax
• → English: thorax
• → Esperanto: torako
• → French: thorax
• → Galician: tórax
• → German: Thorax
• → Ido: torako
• → Irish: tóracs
• → Italian: torace
• → Lombard: torax
• → Malay: toraks
• → Occitan: torax
• → Portuguese: tórax, torace
• → Russian: то́ракс (tóraks)
• → Slovene: toraks
• → Spanish: tórax
• → Swedish: thorax

References

• 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 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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Portuguese

Noun

thorax m (plural thoraxes)

1. Obsolete spelling of tórax (used in Portugal until September 1911 and in Brazil until the 1940s).