uterus
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).
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NounEdit
uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)
- (anatomy) An organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth; the womb.
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TranslationsEdit
womb — see womb
Further readingEdit
- uterus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- uterus in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- uterus at OneLook Dictionary Search
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EtymologyEdit
Belongs to the same family as Latin venter, Ancient Greek ὅδερος (hóderos, “belly, uterus”), Sanskrit उदर (udara, “belly, uterus”) and Lithuanian vė̃daras (“intestine, entrails”), but the details are not clear.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension
InflectionEdit
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | uterus | uterī |
| genitive | uterī | uterōrum |
| dative | uterō | uterīs |
| accusative | uterum | uterōs |
| ablative | uterō | uterīs |
| vocative | utere | uterī |
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ReferencesEdit
- uterus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- uterus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “uterus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
- ^ “utero” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2