fetus
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈfiːtəs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːtəs
Noun
[edit]fetus (plural fetuses or fetus or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii) (American spelling, also Canada, Australia)
- An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
- The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
- (archaic) A neonate
- 1959 [1689], John Locke, chapter 6, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, vol. 2, New York, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., page 77:
- The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.
Usage notes
[edit]- The form fetus is the primary spelling in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations.
- The nominative/accusative plural of fētus in Latin is fētūs with lengthened second vowel. The hypercorrect plurals feti and fetii are thus comparable to the hypercorrect plural octopi of octopus (the Ancient Greek plural of octopus is octopodes).
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[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fētus. First attested in c. 1900.[1] Doublet of feda.
Noun
[edit]fetus m (invariable)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “fetus”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
Further reading
[edit]- “fetus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fetus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fetus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Indonesian
[edit]Noun
[edit]fetus (first-person possessive fetusku, second-person possessive fetusmu, third-person possessive fetusnya)
Latin
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *fētos, from earlier *θētos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(i)-to, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-, see also Sanskrit धयति (dhayati), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬎 (daēnu), Old Armenian դիեմ (diem), Lithuanian žįsti and Old Church Slavonic доити (doiti).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈfeː.tus/, [ˈfeːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfe.tus/, [ˈfɛːt̪us]
Adjective
[edit]fētus (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second-declension adjective
- pregnant, full of young
- of one who has recently given birth, of one that has newly delivered; nursing
- (figuratively) fruitful, fertile, productive, teeming with, full of, big
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | fētus | fēta | fētum | fētī | fētae | fēta | |
Genitive | fētī | fētae | fētī | fētōrum | fētārum | fētōrum | |
Dative | fētō | fētō | fētīs | ||||
Accusative | fētum | fētam | fētum | fētōs | fētās | fēta | |
Ablative | fētō | fētā | fētō | fētīs | |||
Vocative | fēte | fēta | fētum | fētī | fētae | fēta |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “fetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Noun
[edit]fētus m (genitive fētūs); fourth declension
- A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
- Offspring, young, progeny.
- Fruit, produce.
- (figuratively) Growth, production.
- (New Latin) A fetus.
- 1842, Franciscus Arv[idus] Snellman, Dissertatio Academica Excerebrationis Fetus in Partu Legem Examinatura, Helsingforsiae: Ex officina typographica Frenckelliana, page 30:
- Postremo, comparatione inter excerebrationem fetus et sectionem caesaream ac partum praematurum artificialem facta, nobis apparuit, containdicatam esse excerebrationem: […]
- Finally, the comparison having been completed between the excerebration of the fetus, the caesarean section, and premature induced birth, excerebration has appeared to us to be contraindicated: […]
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | fētus | fētūs |
Genitive | fētūs | fētuum |
Dative | fētuī | fētibus |
Accusative | fētum | fētūs |
Ablative | fētū | fētibus |
Vocative | fētus | fētūs |
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[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Vulgar Latin: (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “fetus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 246
Further reading
[edit]- “fetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fetus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Romanian
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[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin fētus. Doublet of făt.
Noun
[edit]fetus m (plural fetuși)
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[edit]fétus m (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус)
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