bronchus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Late Latin bronchus, from Ancient Greek βρόγχος (brónkhos, “trachea, throat”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑŋkəs/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒŋkəs, (General American) -ɑŋkəs

Noun

bronchus (plural bronchi)

1. Either of two airways, which are primary branches of the trachea, leading directly into the lungs.
   • 1993, “Afternoons & Coffeespoons”, in Brad Roberts (music), God Shuffled His Feet, performed by Crash Test Dummies:

     I've watched the summer evenings pass by / I've heard the rattle in my bronchi.

Synonyms

• bronchial tube

Derived terms

• bronchial
• bronchial tree
• bronchiole
• bronchitis
• broncho-
• bronchoid
• dorsobronchus
• parabronchus
• ventrobronchus

Related terms

• bronchium

Translations

Either or two branches of the trachea

• Arabic: القَصَبَة الهَوَائِيَّة (al-qaṣaba(t) al-hawāʔiyya)
• Catalan: bronqui (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 支氣管 / 支气管 (zh) (zhīqìguǎn)

• Czech: průduška (cs) f
• Esperanto: bronko
• Finnish: keuhkoputki (fi)
• French: bronche (fr) f
• German: Bronchie (de) f
• Greek: βρόγχος (el) m (vrónchos)
• Gujarati: શ્વાસનલિકા (śvāsanlikā)
• Hebrew: סִמְפוֹן (he) m (simfón), סִמְפוֹנוֹת m pl (simfonót)
• Hungarian: hörgő (hu)
• Icelandic: berkja (is) f
• Ido: bronkio (io)
• Ingrian: bronha
• Irish: píobán m, píobán broinceach m, broncas m
• Italian: bronco (it) m
• Japanese: 気管支 (ja) (きかんし, kikanshi)
• Kazakh: ауатамыр (auatamyr)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: liqê borrihewa f

• Lower Tanana: -drayhdwga' tl'ula'
• Māori: pekahau
• Persian: نایژه (fa) (nāyže)
• Polish: oskrzele (pl) n, oskrzela pl
• Portuguese: brônquio (pt) m
• Russian: бронх (ru) m (bronx)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бронх m, бронхија f

  Latin: bronh (sh) m, bronhija f

• Spanish: bronquio (es) m
• Swedish: bronk (sv) c
• Tagalog: sangambaga, brongkyo
• Turkish: bronş (tr)
• Volapük: bronatuig

Anagrams

• subchron

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbronxus]

Noun

bronchus m inan

1. bronchus

   Synonym: průduška

Declension

Declension of bronchus (velar masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	bronchus	bronchy
genitive	bronchu	bronchů
dative	bronchu	bronchům
accusative	bronchus	bronchy
vocative	bronchu	bronchy
locative	bronchu	bronších
instrumental	bronchem	bronchy

Further reading

• “bronchus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bronchus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989