cervix

See also: cérvix

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.vɪks/
• 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

Translations

neck — see neck

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

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

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

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

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

• Czech: děložní čípek m
• 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
• Greek: τράχηλος (el) m (tráchilos)
• Hindi: ग्रीवा (hi) f (grīvā)
• Hungarian: méhnyak (hu)
• Ido: cervixo
• Irish: ceirbheacs m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: cervice (it) f, collo dell'utero m
• Japanese: 子宮頸部 (しきゅうけいぶ, shikyū keibu)
• Latvian: dzemdes kakls m
• Maori: waha kōpū
• Marathi: योनिमार्ग m (yonimārga), ग्रीवा (mr) f (grīvā)
• Mongolian: умайн хүзүү (umajn xüzüü)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: livmorhals m

  Nynorsk: livmorhals m

• 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/

• Audio

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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

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head”) (cf. cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to become equal, to exchange”) (cf. vinciō), i.e. "where the head turns".

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cervīx f (genitive cervīcis); third declension

1. (anatomy) The neck of a person or animal.
2. (by extension) The neck of an object (e.g. bottle).
3. (figuratively) Boldness, headstrong behavior.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

Synonyms

• (neck): collum

Derived terms

• cervīcal
• cervīcātus
• cervīcōsus
• cervīcula

Descendants

• → Catalan: cèrvix
• → Dutch: cervix
• → English: cervix
• Italian: cervice
• Old Catalan: serviu

• Old Occitan: cervitz
• Portuguese: cerviz; → cérvice, cérvix
• Romanian: cerbice; → cervix
• Spanish: cerviz; → cérvix

References

• “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)