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See also: cérvix
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin cervīx (“neck”), see below.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cervix (plural cervixes or cervices)
- (anatomy) The neck
- The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
- The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
neck — see neck
neck-like part — see neck
lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina
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Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin cervīx, see below.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
cervix m (plural cervixen or cervices, diminutive cervixje n)
Synonyms[edit]
- (neck): nek, hals
- (uterus portion): baarmoederhals
Derived terms[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“the head”) (compare cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to curve, bend”) (compare vinciō), literally “where the head turns”.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈker.u̯iːks/, [ˈkɛru̯iːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.viks/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrviks]
Noun[edit]
cervīx f (genitive cervīcis); third declension
- (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).)
- The neck suitable for the yoke should not be struck by the axe:
- apta iugō cervīx nōn est feriendā secūrī:
- (figuratively)
- (transferred sense) (of an object) neck
‘...levis odorato cervix manabit olivo, et feries nudos veste fluente pedes’- Propertius 3.17
Note: Often used in the plural with singular meaning.
- 44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippics :
- Consules designati negabant se audere in senatum venire; patriae liberatores urbe carebant ea, cuius a cervicibus iugum servile deiecerant.
- The consuls-elect said they did not dare attend the senate. The liberators of their native land were parted from the very city from whose neck they had cast off the yoke of slavery.
- Consules designati negabant se audere in senatum venire; patriae liberatores urbe carebant ea, cuius a cervicibus iugum servile deiecerant.
Inflection[edit]
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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: cerbice
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References[edit]
- “cervix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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)
- to break a person's neck: cervices (in Cic. only in plur.) frangere alicui or alicuius
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cervīx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 613
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
cervix n (uncountable)
Declension[edit]
declension of cervix (singular only)
singular | ||
---|---|---|
n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) cervix | cervixul |
genitive/dative | (unui) cervix | cervixului |
vocative | cervixule |
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