trachea

See also: Trachea

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, from Medieval Latin trāchēa (“the windpipe”) (also borrowed as Late Latin trāchīa), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîa artēríā, “windpipe, trachea”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈkiː.ə/, /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːə, -eɪkiə

Noun

trachea (plural tracheae or (obsolete) tracheæ or tracheas)

1. (anatomy) A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi.

   Synonym: windpipe

2. (botany, dated) The xylem vessel.

   Synonym: vessel

3. (entomology) One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body.

Derived terms

• tracheal
• trachean
• tracheary
• tracheo-, trache-

 

Related terms

• tracheally
• tracheid
• tracheole

 

Translations

thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi

• Arabic: قَصَبَة هَوَائِيَّة f (qaṣaba hawāʔiyya)
• Armenian: շնչափող (hy) (šnčʻapʻoġ)
• Basque: trakea
• Bengali: হলকুম (bn) (holokum)
• Bulgarian: трахея (bg) f (traheja)
• Catalan: tràquea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣管／气管 (hei³ gun²)

  Hokkien: 肺管 (zh-min-nan) (hì-kńg)

  Mandarin: 氣管／气管 (zh) (qìguǎn)

• Czech: průdušnice (cs) f
• Danish: luftrør (da)
• Dutch: trachee (de) (nl), trachea (nl) f, luchtpijp (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: traĥeo
• Finnish: henkitorvi (fi)
• French: trachée (fr) f
• Galician: tráquea (gl) f, gorgoiro m
• German: Trachea m
• Greek: τραχεία (el) f (tracheía)

  Ancient: ἀρτηρία f (artēría), τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία f (trakheîa artēría), βρόγχος m (brónkhos)

• Greenlandic: torluk
• Hungarian: légcső (hu)
• Ingrian: kulkkukerus, hookukerus
• Irish: píobán garbh m, traicé f, píobán m (familiar), aerchonair f
• Italian: trachea (it) f
• Japanese: 気管 (ja) (きかん, kikan)
• Kazakh: кеңірдек (keñırdek)
• Khmer: បំពង់សួត (bɑmpʊəŋ suǝt), បំពង់ខ្យល់ (bɑmpʊəŋ kyɑl)
• Korean: 숨통 (ko) (sumtong), 기도(氣道) (ko) (gido), 기관(氣管) (ko) (gigwan), 숨구멍 (sumgumeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: borîhewa f

• Latin: trachia f
• Latvian: elpvads m, traheja f
• Lithuanian: kvėplė f
• Maori: pūkorokoro, arahau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftrør n

  Nynorsk: luftrøyr f or n

• Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز (boğaz)
• Persian: نای (fa) (nāy)
• Plautdietsch: Loftrua n, Wintrua n
• Polish: tchawica (pl) f
• Portuguese: traqueia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਾਹ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ f (sāh nāḷī)
• Russian: трахе́я (ru) f (traxéja), дыха́тельное го́рло n (dyxátelʹnoje górlo)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̀шнӣк m, трахе́ја f

  Roman: dùšnīk (sh) m, trahéja (sh) f

• Slovene: sapnik (sl) m
• Spanish: tráquea (es) f
• Swedish: luftstrupe (sv)
• Tagalog: hihingahan
• Thai: หลอดลม (th) (lɔ̀ɔt-lom), ท่อลม
• Tibetan: གློ་སྦུབས (glo sbubs)
• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek
• Vietnamese: khí quản (vi) (氣管)
• Volapük: bron (vo)
• Welsh: pibell wynt f, breuant m, tracea

See also

• esophagus
• gullet
• throat

 

References

• “trachea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “trachea”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Tarache, atreach

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtraxɛa]

Noun

trachea f (related adjective tracheální)

1. (anatomy) trachea

Declension

Declension of trachea (technical feminine in -ea)

	singular	plural
nominative	trachea	trachey
genitive	trachey	tracheí
dative	trachei	tracheám, tracheím
accusative	tracheu	trachey
vocative	tracheo	trachey
locative	trachei	tracheách, tracheích
instrumental	tracheou	tracheami

Further reading

• “trachea”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “trachea”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “trachea”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trachia (“windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τραχεῖα (trakheîa, “windpipe”), feminine of τραχύς (trakhús, “rugged, rough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈkɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: tra‧chè‧a

Noun

trachea f (plural trachee)

1. (anatomy) trachea, windpipe
2. (botany) trachea

Derived terms

• tracheale
• tracheide
• tracheite
• tracheo-
• tracheobronchite
• tracheoscopia
• tracheotomia

 

See also

• esofago
• gola

Latin

Etymology

From Late Latin trachia (“windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖα (trākheîa, “jagged, rugged, rough”), ellipsis of τρᾱχεῖα ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîa artēríā, “rough artery”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /traːˈkʰeː.a/, [t̪räːˈkʰeːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /traˈke.a/, [t̪räˈkɛːä]

Noun

trāchēa f (genitive trāchēae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) the windpipe, trachea

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trāchēa	trāchēae
Genitive	trāchēae	trāchēārum
Dative	trāchēae	trāchēīs
Accusative	trāchēam	trāchēās
Ablative	trāchēā	trāchēīs
Vocative	trāchēa	trāchēae

Descendants

• Middle English:
  • English: trachea

Portuguese

Noun

trachea f (plural tracheas)

1. Obsolete form of traqueia.