aorta

See also: Aorta, aortā, and aortą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /eɪˈɔːtə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /eɪˈɔɹtə/

Noun

aorta (plural aortas or aortae)

2. (anatomy) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.

   Synonym: great artery

3. (figuratively) The liveliest part of something.
   • 2007 January 26, Stefan Kanfer, “In Lower Manhattan, the Echo of the Yiddish Stage Endures”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 March 2019:

     Tracing their battles, I had many occasions to walk along Second Avenue, the aorta of the Lower East Side, exploring places that were once as vibrant and tumultuous as Midtown Manhattan.

Coordinate terms

• circulatory system

Derived terms

• abdominal aorta
• aortal
• aortic
• aortitis
• aortography
• aortoplasty
• aortorrhaphy
• arch of the aorta
• porcelain aorta

Translations

great artery

• Arabic: أَبْهَر m (ʔabhar), وَتِين m (watīn), أَوُرْطَى m (ʔawurṭā)
• Asturian: aorta f
• Belarusian: ао́рта f (aórta)
• Bulgarian: ао́рта (bg) f (aórta)
• Catalan: aorta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 主動脈 / 主动脉 (zh) (zhǔdòngmài), 大動脈 / 大动脉 (zh) (dàdòngmài)

• Czech: srdečnice (cs) f, aorta (cs) f
• Danish: aorta c, hovedpulsåre c
• Dutch: aorta (nl) f or m, lichaamsslagader (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: aorto
• Faroese: meginlívæðr f
• Finnish: aortta (fi)
• French: aorte (fr) f
• Galician: aorta (gl) f
• German: Hauptschlagader (de) f, Aorta (de) f
• Greek: αορτή (el) f (aortí)

  Ancient: ἀορτή f (aortḗ)

• Gujarati: મહાધમની ? (mahādhamnī)
• Hebrew: אבי העורקים (he) m (aví ha-orakím), אאורטה f (aórta)
• Hindi: महाधमनी f (mahādhmanī)
• Hungarian: főverőér
• Ido: aorto (io)
• Indonesian: aorta (id)
• Irish: aorta m
• Italian: aorta (it) f
• Japanese: 大動脈 (ja) (だいどうみゃく, daidōmyaku)
• Kazakh: қолқа (kk) (qolqa)
• Korean: 대동맥(大動脈) (daedongmaek)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: şahxwînber f aort (ku) f

• Macedonian: ао́рта f (aórta)
• Manx: ard-chuishley f
• Maori: pūtahi o te manawa
• Marathi: महारोहिणी f (mahārohiṇī), महाधमनी f (mahādhamnī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: гол судас (gol sudas), гол судал (gol sudal) (China)

  Mongolian: ᠭᠣᠣᠯ
  ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠰᠤ (ɣool sudasu), ᠭᠣᠣᠯ
  ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯ (ɣool sudal)

• Persian: آئورت (fa) (â'ort), رگ جان (rag-e jân)
• Polish: aorta (pl) f
• Portuguese: aorta (pt) f
• Romanian: aortă (ro) f
• Russian: ао́рта (ru) f (aórta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀о̄рта f

  Roman: àōrta (sh) f

• Slovak: srdcovnica f, aorta (sk) f
• Slovene: aorta (sl) f
• Spanish: aorta (es) f
• Swahili: aorta (sw)
• Swedish: aorta (sv) c, kroppspulsåder (sv) c
• Tagalog: punong-tibukan, punong ugat-tibukan
• Telugu: బృహద్ధమని (br̥haddhamani), మహాధమని (mahādhamani)
• Thai: เอออร์ตา
• Turkish: aort (tr)
• Ukrainian: ао́рта (uk) f (aórta)
• Uzbek: aorta (uz)
• Vietnamese: động mạch chủ, đại động mạch (大動脈)
• Volapük: laortad
• Yup'ik: taqerpak

Further reading

• aorta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aortes)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əˈɔr.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [aˈɔɾ.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Noun

aorta f (plural aortes)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aòrtic

Further reading

• “aorta”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “aorta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “aorta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “aorta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aorta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaːˈɔr.taː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: aor‧ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aorta's, no diminutive)

1. aorta

Derived terms

• aortaal
• aortisch

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Related terms

• aórtico

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch aorta, from Latin aorta, from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈaɔrta]
• Hyphenation: aor‧ta

Noun

aorta (plural aorta-aorta)

1. (anatomy) aorta: the great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system

   Hypernym: arteri

Further reading

• “aorta”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Interlingua

Noun

aorta (plural aortas)

1. aorta

Related terms

• aortic

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta m (genitive singular aorta, nominative plural aortaí)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

Declension of aorta (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative aorta aortaí vocative a aorta a aortaí genitive aorta aortaí dative aorta aortaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an t-aorta na haortaí genitive an aorta na n-aortaí dative leis an aorta don aorta leis na haortaí

Derived terms

• aorta droma (“dorsal aorta”)
• aorta tairr (“ventral aorta”)
• aorta tóracsach (“thoracic aorta”)
• aortach (“aortic”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aorta

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aorta	n-aorta	haorta	t-aorta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “aorta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “aorta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “aorta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɔr.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Hyphenation: a‧òr‧ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aorte)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aortico

Anagrams

• arato, orata

Latin

Alternative forms

• aortē, adorta

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”). Medieval Latin; compare the Classical borrowing of the same as averta.

Partēs aortae

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɔr.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈɔr.ta]

Noun

aorta f (genitive aortae); first declension

1. aorta

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aorta	aortae
genitive	aortae	aortārum
dative	aortae	aortīs
accusative	aortam	aortās
ablative	aortā	aortīs
vocative	aorta	aortae

Derived terms

• aortālis
• aorticus
• aortīnus

Latvian

Aorta

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

aorta f (4th declension)

1. (anatomy) aorta (the main artery of the circulatory system, responsible for carrying the blood from the heart to the rest of the body except the lungs)

   lielais asinsriņķošanas loks sākas ar aortu ― the great blood circulation cycle begins with the aorta

   lielie asinsvadi: aorta un plaušu artērija ― the major blood vessels: the aorta and the pulmonary artery

Declension

Declension of aorta (4th)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative	aorta	aortas
genitive	aortas	aortu
dative	aortai	aortām
accusative	aortu	aortas
instrumental	aortu	aortām
locative	aortā	aortās
vocative	aorta	aortas

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɔr.ta/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔrta
• Syllabification: a‧or‧ta

Noun

aorta f

1. (anatomy) aorta

   Synonym: tętnica główna

2. (literary) aorta (the main area of transportation in a city)

Declension

Declension of aorta

	singular	plural
nominative	aorta	aorty
genitive	aorty	aort
dative	aorcie	aortom
accusative	aortę	aorty
instrumental	aortą	aortami
locative	aorcie	aortach
vocative	aorto	aorty

Derived terms

adjectives

• aortalny
• aortowy

noun

• aortografia

Further reading

• aorta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• aorta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɔʁ.tɐ/ [aˈɔh.tɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɔʁ.tɐ/ [aˈɔh.tɐ]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /aˈɔɾ.tɐ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /aˈɔʁ.tɐ/ [aˈɔχ.tɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɔɻ.ta/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɔɾ.tɐ/

• Homophone: a horta
• Hyphenation: a‧or‧ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta (great artery)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǎoːrta/
• Hyphenation: a‧or‧ta

Noun

àōrta f (Cyrillic spelling а̀о̄рта)

1. (anatomy) aorta

   Antonym: vena

Declension

Declension of aorta

	singular	plural
nominative	àōrta	aorte
genitive	aorte	àorātā / àōrtī / àōrtā
dative	aorti	aortama
accusative	aortu	aorte
vocative	aorto	aorte
locative	aorti	aortama
instrumental	aortom	aortama

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈoɾta/ [aˈoɾ.t̪a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: a‧or‧ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aorta abdominal
• aórtico
• cayado de la aorta

Further reading

• “aorta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English aorta.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

aorta class IX (plural aorta class X)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta c

1. (anatomy) aorta

   Synonym: stora kroppspulsådern

Declension

Declension of aorta

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	aorta	aortas
	definite	aortan	aortans
plural	indefinite	aortor	aortors
	definite	aortorna	aortornas

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish aorta, from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”). Doublet of ayorta.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈoɾta/ [ʔɐˈoɾ.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -oɾta
• Syllabification: a‧or‧ta

Noun

aorta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜏᜓᜇ᜔ᜆ) (anatomy)

1. aorta

   Synonyms: ayorta, punong-daluyan

Related terms

• aortika
• aortitis

Further reading

• “aorta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018.
• Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972), Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 41

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ао́рта (aórta), from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ἀορτέω (aortéō), lengthened form of ἀείρω (aeírō, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta (plural aortalar)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

Declension of aorta

	singular	plural
nominative	aorta	aortalar
genitive	aortaning	aortalarning
dative	aortaga	aortalarga
definite accusative	aortani	aortalarni
locative	aortada	aortalarda
ablative	aortadan	aortalardan
similative	aortadek	aortalardek

Possessive forms of aorta

1st person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	aortam	aortalarim
genitive	aortamning	aortalarimning
dative	aortamga	aortalarimga
definite accusative	aortamni	aortalarimni
locative	aortamda	aortalarimda
ablative	aortamdan	aortalarimdan
similative	aortamdek	aortalarimdek
2nd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	aortang	aortalaring
genitive	aortangning	aortalaringning
dative	aortangga	aortalaringga
definite accusative	aortangni	aortalaringni
locative	aortangda	aortalaringda
ablative	aortangdan	aortalaringdan
similative	aortangdek	aortalaringdek
3rd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	aortasi	aortalari
genitive	aortasining	aortalarining
dative	aortasiga	aortalariga
definite accusative	aortasini	aortalarini
locative	aortasida	aortalarida
ablative	aortasidan	aortalaridan
similative	aortasidek	aortalaridek
1st person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	aortamiz	aortalarimiz
genitive	aortamizning	aortalarimizning
dative	aortamizga	aortalarimizga
definite accusative	aortamizni	aortalarimizni
locative	aortamizda	aortalarimizda
ablative	aortamizdan	aortalarimizdan
similative	aortamizdek	aortalarimizdek
2nd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	aortangiz	aortalaringiz
genitive	aortangizning	aortalaringizning
dative	aortangizga	aortalaringizga
definite accusative	aortangizni	aortalaringizni
locative	aortangizda	aortalaringizda
ablative	aortangizdan	aortalaringizdan
similative	aortangizdek	aortalaringizdek
3rd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	aortasi	aortalari
genitive	aortasining	aortalarining
dative	aortasiga	aortalariga
definite accusative	aortasini	aortalarini
locative	aortasida	aortalarida
ablative	aortasidan	aortalaridan
similative	aortasidek	aortalaridek