femur

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See also: Femur, fémur, fèmur, and fêmur

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin femur (thigh).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈfiːmə(ɹ)/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

Noun[edit]

femur (plural femurs or femora)

  1. (anatomy) A thighbone.
  2. (entomology) The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
  3. (arachnology) A segment of the leg of an arachnid.

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

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Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Unknown. The heteroclitic (r/n) inflection is rather archaic (as also seen in iecur and iter), descending from Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ ~ *-n-, but no secure Proto-Indo-European origin for femur can be found.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

femur n (genitive feminis or femoris); third declension

  1. thigh
  2. thighbone
  3. (architecture) the space between the grooves of a triglyph
  4. (figuratively) the loins; capacity to produce children.
Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem; two different stems).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative femur femina
femora
Genitive feminis
femoris
feminum
femorum
Dative feminī
femorī
feminibus
femoribus
Accusative femur femina
femora
Ablative femine
femore
feminibus
femoribus
Vocative femur femina
femora
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
  • Catalan: fèmur
  • English: femur
  • French: fémur
  • Galician: fémur
  • German: Femur
  • Italian: femore
  • Occitan: fèmur
  • Portuguese: fémur (Portugal), fêmur (Brazil)
  • Romanian: femur
  • Sicilian: fèmuri
  • Spanish: fémur

Etymology 2[edit]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

fēmur

  1. first-person plural present active subjunctive of for

References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  • femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • femur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • femur in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • femur in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French fémur.

Noun[edit]

femur n (plural femururi)

  1. femur

Declension[edit]