retina

See also Retina, and rețină

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin retina, the diminutive form of Latin rete (“net”), probably from the Vulgar Latin phrase (tunica) *retina, literally "net-like tunic", used to describe the blood vessel system at the back of the eye. (Gerard of Cremona may have created this phrase as a translation for Arabic (tabaqa) sabakiva "net-like layer", which translates Ancient Greek ἀμφιβληστροειδής (χιτών)).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˈɹɛt.ɨ.n‌ə/

Noun

Illustration showing parts of the human eye, including the retina.

retina (plural retinas or retinae or retinæ)

1. (anatomy) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into neural signals sent to the brain.

Translations

thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball

• Arabic: شبكية عين (ar) (shabakiyat `ayn) f
• Armenian: ցանցենի (hy) (cʿancʿeni)
• Bengali: রেটিনা (bn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 視網膜 (cmn), 视网膜 (cmn) (shìwǎngmó)

• Czech: sítnice (cs) f
• Dutch: netvlies (nl) n, retina (nl) (formal)
• Esperanto: retino (eo)
• Finnish: verkkokalvo (fi), retina (fi)
• French: rétine (fr) f
• German: Netzhaut (de) f, Retina (de) f
• Greek: αμφιβληστροειδής (el) (amfivlistroeidís) m
• Hebrew: רשתית (he)
• Hungarian: retina (hu), recehártya (hu)

• Irish: reitine (ga) f
• Italian: retina (it) f
• Japanese: 網膜 (ja) (もうまく, mōmaku)
• Korean: 눈의 망막 (ko)
• Latvian: tīklene (lv) f
• Persian: شبکیه (fa) (šabakiye)
• Polish: siatkówka (pl) f
• Portuguese: retina (pt) f
• Russian: сетчатка (ru) (setčátka) f, ретина (ru) (retína) f
• Serbian: mrežnjača f, mrežnica f
• Serbo-Croatian: retina (sh), mrežnica (sh), mrežnjača (sh)
• Spanish: retina (es) f
• Swedish: näthinna (sv) c
• Turkish: ağ kat (tr), ağ tabaka (tr)
• Volapük: retin (vo)

Derived terms

• retinal
• retinitis
• retinopathy
• detached retina

Anagrams

• retain
• tin ear

External links

• Retina on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Noun

retina f, m (plural retina's, ^??? please provide the diminutive!)

1. (anatomy) retina

Synonyms

• netvlies

Anagrams

• traine

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Hungarian

Noun

retina

1. retina

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology 1

The original sense (Etymology 2) of retina, but given a specific anatomical meaning.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrɛtina/, X-SAMPA: /"rEtina/
• Hyphenation: rè‧ti‧na

Noun

retina f (plural retine)

1. (anatomy) retina

Derived terms

• retinene
• retinico
• retinite
• retinopatia

Etymology 2

rete +‎ -ina

Pronunciation

• IPA: /reˈtina/, X-SAMPA: /re"tina/
• Hyphenation: re‧tì‧na

Noun

retina f (plural retine) (Diminutive of: rete)

1. small net
2. hairnet

Verb

retina

1. third-person singular present indicative of retinare
2. second-person singular imperative of retinare

Anagrams

• anitre
• entrai
• intera
• rinate
• tenari
• tirane

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Spanish

Noun

retina f (plural retinas)

1. retina

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Portuguese

Verb

retina

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of retinir
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of retinir
3. third-person singular imperative of retinir