paduse

See also: padusē

Latvian[edit]

From pa- +‎ an older term *dusa (“arm, shoulder”) (maybe *dusis?), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *dus-, from the zero grade *dus- of Proto-Indo-European *dóws (“arm”) (whence Sanskrit दोषान् (doṣán-), दो (do, “arm, forearm”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬊𐬱- (daoš-, “upper arm, shoulder”)). Cognates include Old Church Slavonic пазуха (pazuxa), Belarusian, Ukrainian and Russian па́зуха (pázuxa), Czech, Polish pazucha.^[1]

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paduse f (5th declension)

(anatomy) armpit (cavity beneath the junction of arm and shoulder)
paduses artērija ― armpit (= axillary) artery

turēt ko padusē ― to hold something in one's armpit

likt, ielikt termometru padusē ― to set a thermometer into someone's armpit
(botany) space under a stem or (forked) branch
lapu paduses ― leaf armpit (= area under the stem)

Declension of paduse (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	paduse	paduses
accusative (akuzatīvs)	padusi	paduses
genitive (ģenitīvs)	paduses	padušu
dative (datīvs)	padusei	padusēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	padusi	padusēm
locative (lokatīvs)	padusē	padusēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	paduse	paduses

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “paduse”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN