adipose

English

WOTD – 13 November 2013, 13 November 2014

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin adipōsus, from Latin adeps (“fat, lard”); surface analysis, adip- +‎ -ose; Latin adeps (“fat, lard”) is probably related to Umbrian 𐌀𐌛𐌄𐌐𐌄𐌔 (ařepes, “offerings of fat”) since 𐌛 (ř) in Umbrian regularly represents an earlier *d.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊs/, /ˈæd.ɪ.pəʊz/
• IPA^(key): /ˈæd.ɪ.poʊs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊz

Adjective

adipose (comparative more adipose, superlative most adipose)

1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat; fatty.
   • 2003, Dr. Andrew Packard, The Packard Weight Health Plan:

     They will attack the problem specifically at key sites in the brain, digestive system, and adipose organs.

2. Slightly overweight; chubby.
   • 2012, Ruth Petrie, “Not So Lovely in the Garden”, in Notes from the Garden:

     This was a statue of a slightly adipose child in a bath hat with its nappy round its ankles.

Synonyms

• (composed of fat): fatty
• (overweight): chubby, chunky, overweight, plump, podgy, tubby

Derived terms

• adipose fin
• adipose tissue

Translations

containing, composed of, or consisting of fat

• Arabic: دُهْنِيّ (duhniyy)
• Armenian: ճարպային (hy) (čarpayin)
• Bulgarian: тлъст (bg) (tlǎst), мастен (masten)
• Catalan: adipós
• Finnish: rasva- (fi), ihra- (fi), rasvainen (fi)
• French: adipeux (fr)
• Galician: adiposo
• Greek: λιπώδης (el) (lipódis)
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• Irish: sailleach
• Italian: adiposo (it)
• Portuguese: adiposo (pt)
• Romanian: adipos (ro)
• Russian: жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj), жирово́й (ru) (žirovój), са́льный (ru) (sálʹnyj)
• Spanish: adiposo (es)
• Swedish: fett-, fetthaltig (sv)

slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft

• Finnish: pullea (fi)
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• Russian: упи́танный (ru) (upítannyj), то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj)

Noun

adipose (uncountable)

1. Animal fat stored in the tissue of the body.
   • 2007, Giamila Fantuzzi, Theodore Mazzone, editor, Adipose Tissue and Adipokines in Health and Disease, page xii:

     As reviewed in this volume, adipose function is mechanistically linked to diseases such as arthritis, asthma, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Translations

animal fat stored in the tissue of the body

• Arabic: نَسِيْج دُهْنِيّ (nasiyj duhniyy)
• Bulgarian: тлъстина (bg) (tlǎstina)
• Dutch: vetweefsel (nl) n
• Finnish: rasvakudos (fi), ihra (fi)
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• Indonesian: adiposa (id)
• Malay: اديڤوس (adipos)
• Russian: живо́тный жир (ru) (živótnyj žir)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} adipeux (fr), ^{(please verify)} -euse (fr)
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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} gras-oza, ^{(please verify)} -atra

Related terms

• adipocyte
• adipocere
• adipokine

Further reading

• Adipose tissue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Noun

adipose f (plural adiposes)

1. adiposis

Further reading

• “adipose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

adipose f pl

1. feminine plural of adiposo

Anagrams

• esapodi

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) adipōse

1. vocative masculine singular of adipōsus

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Portuguese

Noun

adipose f (usually uncountable, plural adiposes)

1. (medicine) adiposis (accumulation of adipose tissue)