femur

See also Femur, fémur, and fêmur

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Latin femur, (genitive feminis (“thigh”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dhonu (“fir”). More at tan.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fiːmə(r)/
• Rhymes: -iːmə(r)

Noun

femur (plural femurs or femora)

1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
2. A segment of the leg of an insect or arachnid.

Derived terms

• femoral

Translations

thighbone

• Arabic: عظم الفخذ (ar) (ʕaẓm al-faxið) m

  Egyptian Arabic: عضم الفخد (ʕaḍm el-faxid) m

• Armenian: ազդրոսկր (hy) (azdroskr) 
• Bulgarian: бедро (bg) n (bedro), бедрена кост (bg) f (bedrena kost)
• Catalan: fèmur (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 股骨 (cmn) (gǔgǔ)

• Czech: stehenní kost (cs) f
• Danish: lårben (da) n, lårbensknogle (da) c
• Dutch: dijbeen (nl) n
• Finnish: reisiluu (fi)
• French: fémur (fr) m

• German: Femur (de) m, Oberschenkelknochen (de) m
• Italian: femore (it) m
• Maori: pūkaka (mi)
• Polish: kość (pl) udowa f
• Portuguese: fêmur (pt) m
• Romanian: femur (ro) n
• Russian: бедро (ru) (bedró) n , бедренная кость (ru) (bédrennaja kost’) f 
• Scottish Gaelic: cnàimh na sliasaid (gd) m, sliasaid (gd) f
• Spanish: fémur (es) m
• Swedish: lårben (sv) n
• Volapük: femur (vo)

segment of insect’s leg

• Catalan: fèmur (ca) m
• Finnish: reisi (fi)

• Spanish: fémur (es) m

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• Esperanto: femuro
• French: fémur (fr) m
• Italian: femore m
• Lithuanian: šlaunikaulis
• Norwegian: lårbein n

• Portuguese: fêmur m
• Swedish: lårben n

References

• Webster import

Anagrams

• fumer

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈfe.mur/

Noun

femur (variously declined, genitive feminis or femoris); n, third or third declension

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

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	femur	femina
genitive	feminis	feminum
dative	feminī	feminibus
accusative	femur	femina
ablative	femine	feminibus
vocative	femur	femina

or

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

Derived terms

• femorāle

Descendants

• English: femur
• Italian: femore
• Portuguese: fémur (european portuguese) and fêmur (brazilian portuguese)
• Spanish: fémur

Verb

fēmur

1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for
   1. "may we speak, may we say"

References

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