uterus
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)
- (anatomy) The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.
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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, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- uterus at OneLook Dictionary Search
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LatinEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) + *-eros (contrastive suffix).[1][2]
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
- ^ Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “uterus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 647
Further readingEdit
- 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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette