perineum

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• perinaeum
• perinæum

Etymology

From post‐Classical Latin perineum (Classical perinaeon), from Ancient Greek περίναιον (perínaion) or περίνεος (períneos), from περί (“peri-”) with ἰνέω (“I empty, evacuate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɝɪˈniːəm/

Noun

perineum (plural perinea)

1. (anatomy) Region between the genital area and the anus in both sexes.

Synonyms

• See aslo Wikisaurus:perineum

Derived terms

• perineal

Translations

anatomical term

Afrikaans: perineum (af) Albanian: perineum (sq) m., nënvete (sq) f. Arabic: عجان (ar) (ʿijān) m. Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: շեք (hy) (šek’) Asturian: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Bengali: পেরিনিয়াম (bn) (periniẏam) Breton: perine (br), perineum (br) Bulgarian: перинеум (bg) (perineum) Catalan: periné (ca) m. Chinese: Cantonese: 會陰, 会阴 (wui6 jam1) Mandarin: 會陰 (zh), 会阴 (zh) (huìyīn) Czech: hráz (cs) f. Danish: mellemkød (da) n. Dutch: perineum (nl) n. Esperanto: perineo (eo) Estonian: lahkliha (et) Finnish: väliliha (fi) French: périnée (fr) m. Galician: períneo (gl) m. German: Perineum (de) n., Damm (de) m. Greek: περίνεο (el) (perineo) n. Hebrew: חֵיץ הַנְּקָבַיִים (he) (kheyts ha-nekavayim) m. Hindi: मूलाधार (hi) (mūlādhār) m. Hungarian: gát (hu), perineum (hu) Ido: perineo (io) Italian: perineo (it) m.

Japanese: 会陰 (ja) (えいん, ein) Korean: 회음부 (ko) (hoe-eumbu) (會陰部 (ko)), 회음 (ko) (hoe-eum) (會陰 (ko)) Latin: perineum (la) n. Latvian: starpene (lv) f. Lithuanian: tarpvietė (lt) f. Low Saxon: Damm (nds), Perineum (nds) Norwegian: mellomkjøtt (no) n., perineum (no) Persian: میاندوراه (fa) (miyândorâh), عجان (fa) ('ejân), پرینه (fa) (perine) Polish: krocze (pl) n. Portuguese: períneo (pt) m. Romanian: perineu (ro) n. Romansch: please add this translation if you can Russian: промежность (ru) (proméžnost') f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: мѐђица (sh) f. Roman: mèđica (sh) f. Sicilian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Slovene: presrédek (sl) m. Spanish: periné (es) m., perineo (es) m. Swedish: mellangård (sv) c., perineum (sv) Turkish: perine (tr), apış arası (tr) Ukrainian: промежина (uk) (proméžyna) f. Urdu: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: hội âm (vi) (會陰 (vi)) Welsh: perinewm (cy) Yiddish: please add this translation if you can

References

• “perineum” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

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Albanian

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

perineum m. (definite singular perineumi)

1. (anatomy) perineum

Declension

declension of perineum

	indefinite forms		definite forms
nominative	perineum		perineumi
accusative	perineum		perineumin
genitive (i/e/të/së)	perineumi		perineumit
dative	perineumi		perineumit
ablative	perineumi		perineumit