gigerium
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Latin gigeria (“(plural) the cooked entrails of poultry”).
Noun[edit]
gigerium (plural gigeria)
- (anatomy) The gizzard of some birds.
- 1874, Elliott Coues, Birds of the Northwest, LARUS ARGENTATUS, page 650:
- The gigerium, in situ, is far back in the abdomen, its middle about opposite the last rib and to the left side, lying nearly apposed to the abdominal parietes
References[edit]
- “gigerium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
gigērium n (genitive gigēriī or gigērī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gigērium | gigēria |
Genitive | gigēriī gigērī1 |
gigēriōrum |
Dative | gigēriō | gigēriīs |
Accusative | gigērium | gigēria |
Ablative | gigēriō | gigēriīs |
Vocative | gigērium | gigēria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).