fetus

See also foetus

English

A fetus at eight weeks from conception.

Alternative forms

• (UK, hypercorrect) foetus
• (UK, rare, hypercorrect) fœtus
• (chiefly Canadian and US) fetus
• (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
• (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus

Etymology

From Latin fētus (“offspring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈfiːtəs/
• Rhymes: -iːtəs

Noun

fetus (plural fetuses) (Canada, US)

1. An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
2. A human embryo after the 8^th week of gestation.

Usage notes

The form fetus is preferred in North America and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in Commonwealth nations.

Derived terms

• fetal

Translations

fetus

• Arabic: جنين (ar) (janiin) m, حمل (ar) (Haml) m
• Armenian: պտուղ (hy) (ptuġ) 
• Bulgarian: зародиш (bg) m (zarodiš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胎兒 (cmn), 胎儿 (cmn) (tāi'ér), 胎 (cmn) (tāi)

• Czech: plod (cs) m
• Danish: foster (da) n
• Dutch: foetus (nl) n
• Esperanto: feto (eo)
• Faroese: fostur (fo) n
• Finnish: sikiö (fi)
• French: fœtus (fr) m
• German: Fötus (de) n
• Greek: έμβρυο (el) n (émvryo)
• Hebrew: עובר (he) (‘ubbar) m
• Hindi: भ्रूण (hi) (bhrūṇa)
• Icelandic: fóstur (is) n

• Indonesian: janin (id)
• Italian: feto (it) m
• Japanese: 胎児 (ja) (たいじ, taiji)
• Khmer: គភ៌ (km) (koar)
• Korean: 태아 (ko) (胎兒, tae-a)
• Latin: fetus (la)
• Malay: fetus (ms)
• Norwegian: foster (no) n
• Polish: płód (pl) m
• Portuguese: feto (pt) m
• Quechua: sullu (qu)
• Romanian: făt (ro) m
• Russian: плод (ru) (plod) m 
• Serbo-Croatian: фетус (sh) m
• Slovak: plod (sk) m
• Spanish: feto (es) m
• Swedish: foster (sv) n

See also

• embryo
• Fetus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Health Online

Anagrams

• UTFSE

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Latin

Adjective

fētus m (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second declension

1. pregnant, full of young
2. fruitful, productive
3. of one who has recently given birth; nursing

Inflection

Number	Singular				Plural
Case \ Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	fētus	fēta	fētum		fētī	fētae	fēta
genitive	fētī	fētae	fētī		fētōrum	fētārum	fētōrum
dative	fētō	fētae	fētō		fētīs	fētīs	fētīs
accusative	fētum	fētam	fētum		fētōs	fētās	fēta
ablative	fētō	fētā	fētō		fētīs	fētīs	fētīs
vocative	fēte	fēta	fētum		fētī	fētae	fēta

Descendants

• Spanish: jeda

Noun

fētus (genitive fētūs); m, fourth declension

1. A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
2. Offspring, young, progeny.
3. Fruit, produce.
4. (figuratively) Growth, production.

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	fētus	fētūs
genitive	fētūs	fētuum
dative	fētuī	fētibus
accusative	fētum	fētūs
ablative	fētū	fētibus
vocative	fētus	fētūs

Descendants

Aromanian: fetu, featã English: fetus, fawn Italian: feto

Portuguese: feto Romanian: făt, fată Spanish: feto

Related terms

fētālia fētificō fētō

fētōsus fētūra fētūrātus

References

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fěːtus/
• Hyphenation: fe‧tus

Noun

fétus m (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус)

1. fetus

Declension

    declension of fetus

	singular	plural
nominative	fetus	fetusi
genitive	fetusa	fetusa
dative	fetusu	fetusima
accusative	fetus	fetuse
vocative	fetuse	fetusi
locative	fetusu	fetusima
instrumental	fetusom	fetusima