cervix

See also: cérvix

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cervīx (“neck”), see below.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.vɪks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.vɪks/

Noun

cervix (plural cervixes or cervices)

1. (anatomy) The neck
2. The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
3. The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

Derived terms

• cervical
• paracervix

Translations

neck — see neck

neck-like part — see neck

lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina

• Arabic: عُنُق اَلرَّحِم‎ (ar) m (ʿunuq ar-raḥim)

  Egyptian Arabic: عنق الرحم‎ m (ʿunuq er-raḥem)

• Armenian: արգանդի վզիկ (argandi vzik)
• Bulgarian: шийка на матката f (šijka na matkata)
• Burmese: သားအိမ်ခေါင်း (sa:imhkaung:)
• Catalan: cèrvix (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子宮頸 (zh), 子宫颈 (zh) (zǐgōngjǐng)

• Czech: děložní čípek (cs) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: baarmoederhals (nl) f, cervix (nl) m
• Faroese: lívmóðurhálsur m
• Finnish: kohdunkaula (fi)
• French: col de l'utérus (fr) m
• German: Cervix uteri f, Cervix f, Zervix f, Gebärmutterhals (de) m
• Greek: τράχηλος (el) m (tráchilos)
• Hindi: ग्रीवा (hi) f (grīvā)
• Hungarian: méhnyak (hu)
• Ido: cervixo

• Irish: ceirbheacs m
• Italian: cervice (it) f, collo dell'utero m
• Japanese: 子宮頸部 (しきゅうけいぶ, shikyū keibu)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: stuyê malzarokê

• Latvian: dzemdes kakls m
• Lithuanian: gimdos kaklelis m
• Maori: waha kōpū
• Marathi: योनिमार्ग m (yonimārga), ग्रीवा (mr) f (grīvā)
• Mongolian: умайн хүзүү (umain khüzüü)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livmorhals m

  Nynorsk: livmorhals m

• Polish: szyjka macicy (pl) f
• Portuguese: cérvice f, cérvix (pt) f
• Russian: ше́йка ма́тки (ru) f (šéjka mátki)
• Slovene: maternični vrat m
• Spanish: cérvix m
• Swedish: livmoderhals (sv) c
• Tagalog: liig-liigan
• Turkish: serviks (tr)
• Welsh: mwnwgl y groth m, serfics m

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cervīx, see below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛr.vɪks/

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• Hyphenation: cer‧vix

Noun

cervix m (plural cervixen or cervices, diminutive cervixje n)

1. neck
2. The cervix between the uterus and the vagina.

Synonyms

• (neck): nek, hals
• (uterus portion): baarmoederhals

Derived terms

• cervicaal

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“the head”) (compare cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to curve, bend”) (compare vinciō), literally “where the head turns”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈker.u̯iːks/, [ˈkɛru̯iːks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.viks/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrviks]

Noun

cervīx f (genitive cervīcis); third declension

1. (anatomy, zootomy) neck, nape

   Synonym: collum

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.415-416:

     apta iugō cervīx nōn est feriendā secūrī:
     vīvat et in dūrā saepe labōret humō.

     The neck suitable for the yoke should not be struck by the axe:
     may it live long and labor often in the hard soil.
     (Agriculture dawns as Ceres teaches humans to yoke oxen to the plow and instead use other animals for sacrificial rites. See Ceres (mythology).)

2. (figuratively)
   1. great burden, danger (from the figure taken from bearing the yoke)
   2. boldness, headstrong behavior
3. (transferred sense) (of an object) neck

‘...levis odorato cervix manabit olivo, et feries nudos veste fluente pedes’- Propertius 3.17

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cervīx	cervīcēs
Genitive	cervīcis	cervīcum
Dative	cervīcī	cervīcibus
Accusative	cervīcem	cervīcēs
Ablative	cervīce	cervīcibus
Vocative	cervīx	cervīcēs

Derived terms

• cervīcal
• cervīcālis
• cervīcātus
• cervīcōsus
• cervīcula

 

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: cerbice
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Catalan: serviu
  • Old French: cerviz ⇒ cervele, chervele (Picard)
    • Middle French: cevich
  • Old Occitan: cervitz ⇒ cervigal
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: cerviz
  • Spanish: cerviz
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cervice
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: cèrvix
  • → Dutch: cervix
  • → English: cervix
  • → Portuguese: cérvice, cérvix
  • → Romanian: cervix
  • → Spanish: cervix

References

• “cervix”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “cervix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cervix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• cervix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to break a person's neck: cervices (in Cic. only in plur.) frangere alicui or alicuius
    
  • a sword hangs over his neck: gladius cervicibus impendet
    
  • the foe is at our heels, is upon us: hostis in cervicibus alicuius est
    
  • to shake off the yoke of slavery: iugum servile a cervicibus deicere (Phil. 1. 2. 6)
    
• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002), “cervīx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 20, page 613

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Romanian

Etymology

From French cérvix

Noun

cervix n (uncountable)

1. cervix

Declension

declension of cervix (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cervix	cervixul
genitive/dative	(unui) cervix	cervixului
vocative	cervixule