aorta

See also: Aorta and aortā

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

• IPA^(key): /eɪˈɔːtə/
• IPA^(key): /eɪˈɔːɹtə/

Noun

aorta (plural aortas or aortae)

1. (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.
2. (figuratively) The liveliest part of something.

   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. [1]

Derived terms

• aortal
• aortic

 

Translations

great artery

• Arabic: أَبْهَر m (ʔabhar), وَتِين m (watīn)
• 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), 主动脉 (zh) (zhǔdòngmài)

• Czech: srdečnice (cs) f, aorta (cs) f
• Danish: aorta ?, hovedpulsåre ?
• 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 f, Aorta (de) f
• Greek: αορτή (el) f (aortí)
• Gujarati: મહાધમની ? (mahādhamnī)
• Hebrew: אבי העורקים (he) m (aví ha-orakím), אאורטה f (aórta)
• Hindi: महाधमनी f (mahādhmanī)
• Hungarian: főverőér
• Ido: aorto (io)
• Interlingue:
• Irish: aorta m
• Italian: aorta (it) f
• Japanese: 大動脈 (だいどうみゃく, daidōmyaku)
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• Kazakh: қолқа (kk) (qolqa)
• Korean: 대동맥 (daedongmaek) (大動脈 (ko))
• Kurdish:
• Macedonian: ао́рта f (aórta)
• Manx: ard-chuishley f
• Maori: pūtahi o te manawa
• Persian: آئورت (fa) (â'ort), رگ جان (rag-e jan)
• 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
• Swedish: aorta (sv) c, kroppspulsåder c
• Tagalog: punong-tibukan, punong ugat-tibukan
• Telugu: బృహద్ధమని (br̥haddhamani), మహాధమని (mahādhamani)
• Turkish: aort (tr)
• Ukrainian: ао́рта (uk) f (aórta)
• Vietnamese: động mạch chủ, đại động mạch (大動脈)
• Volapük: laortad
• Yup'ik: taqerpak

See also

• circulatory system

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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

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Catalan

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

Noun

aorta f (plural aortes)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Related terms

• aòrtic

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aorta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaːˈɔr.taː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: aor‧ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aorta's)

1. aorta

Derived terms

• aortaal
• aortisch

 

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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

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Interlingua

Noun

aorta (plural aortas)

1. aorta

Related terms

• aortic

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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 Case Singular Plural Nominative aorta aortaí Vocative a aorta a aortaí Genitive aorta aortaí Dative aorta aortaí

Forms with the definite article Case 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aorta	n-aorta	haorta	t-aorta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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, 2013-2024

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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”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aorte)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aortico

Anagrams

• arato, orata

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Latin

Alternative forms

• aortē

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀορτή (aortḗ, “the arteries springing from the heart”).

Partēs aortae

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈor.ta/, [äˈɔrt̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈor.ta/, [äˈɔrt̪ä]

Noun

aorta f (genitive aortae); first declension

1. aorta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	aorta	aortae
Genitive	aortae	aortārum
Dative	aortae	aortīs
Accusative	aortam	aortās
Ablative	aortā	aortīs
Vocative	aorta	aortae

Derived terms

• aorticus
• aortālis
• aortīnus

 

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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 declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	aorta	aortas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	aortu	aortas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	aortas	aortu
dative (datīvs)	aortai	aortām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	aortu	aortām
locative (lokatīvs)	aortā	aortās
vocative (vokatīvs)	aorta	aortas

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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:

  (file)

Noun

aorta f

1. (anatomy) aorta

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

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Portuguese

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 (great artery)

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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

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Spanish

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): /aˈoɾta/ [aˈoɾ.t̪a]

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aórtico

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001

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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

Declension

Declension of aorta
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	aorta	aortan	aortor	aortorna
Genitive	aortas	aortans	aortors	aortornas