uterus

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See also: Uterus and utérus

English

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Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: u‧ter‧us

Noun

uterus (plural uteri or uteruses)

  1. (anatomy) The womb, an organ of the female reproductive system in which the young are conceived and develop until birth.

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English uterus, from Latin uterus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈutɛrus]
  • Hyphenation: ute‧rus

Noun

uterus m inan

  1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
    Synonym: děloha

Declension

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Indonesian

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Etymology

From English uterus, from Latin uterus, from Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʊtɛrʊs]
  • Hyphenation: utè‧rus

Noun

uterus (first-person possessive uterusku, second-person possessive uterusmu, third-person possessive uterusnya)

  1. (anatomy, medicine, zoology) womb, uterus
    Synonyms: kandungan, peranakan, rahim
  • saudara (“sibling”, literally “from the same womb”)

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Latin

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Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *úderos (“abdomen, stomach”), from *úd (“out, outward”) +‎ *-eros (contrastive suffix).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

uterus m (genitive uterī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) womb, uterus
  2. fetus, newborn
  3. belly, paunch

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative uterus uterī
Genitive uterī uterōrum
Dative uterō uterīs
Accusative uterum uterōs
Ablative uterō uterīs
Vocative utere uterī

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 282
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “uterus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 647

Further reading

  • “uterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “uterus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • uterus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Malay

Etymology

From Latin uterus (“womb, belly”).

Pronunciation

Noun

uterus (Jawi spelling اوتروس, plural uterus-uterus, informal 1st possessive uterusku, 2nd possessive uterusmu, 3rd possessive uterusnya)

  1. (anatomy) Womb, uterus

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