femur

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See also Femur, fémur, and fêmur

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[edit] English

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From Latin femur (“‘thigh’”).

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Singular
femur

Plural
femurs or femora

femur (plural femurs or femora)

  1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
  2. A segment of an insect’s leg.

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thighbone
segment of insect’s leg
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[edit] Latin

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femur (genitive femoris); n, third declension

  1. thigh
  2. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
  3. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.

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Number Singular Plural
nominative femur femora
genitive femoris femorum
dative femorī femoribus
accusative femur femora
ablative femore femoribus
vocative femur femora

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  • “femur” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
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