vesica

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas or vesicae)

1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• vesica biliaris
• vesica fellea
• vesical
• vesica piscis
• vesica urinaria
• vesicle (-le diminutive)
• vesicula (-ula diminutive via Latin)

Translations

bladder

• Bulgarian: мехур (bg) m (mehur)
• Catalan: vesícula f
• Esperanto: veziko (eo)
• French: vessie (fr) f
• Galician: vexiga (gl) f
• Ido: veziko (io)
• Italian: vescica (it) f
• Portuguese: bexiga (pt) f, vesícula (pt) m
• Swedish: blåsa (sv) c

Anagrams

• cavies

Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

1. bladder

Latin

Alternative forms

• vessīca

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈsiː.ka/, [u̯eːˈs̠iːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈsi.ka/, [veˈs̬iːkä]

Noun

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder

   vēsīca ūrīnāria ― urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vēsīca	vēsīcae
Genitive	vēsīcae	vēsīcārum
Dative	vēsīcae	vēsīcīs
Accusative	vēsīcam	vēsīcās
Ablative	vēsīcā	vēsīcīs
Vocative	vēsīca	vēsīcae

Derived terms

• vēsīcō
• vēsīcula

Descendants

(See also vessīca.)

• Old Occitan: veziga (Quercy), vezica (Fois)
  • Occitan: vesiga (Ségala)
• → English: vesica
• → Romanian: vezică

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vēsīca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 14: U–Z, page 341

Further reading

• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vesica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.