fetus

See also: foetus

§English

A fetus at eight weeks from conception.

§Alternative forms

• (UK, hypercorrect) foetus
• (UK, rare, hypercorrect) fœtus
• (chiefly Canadian and US) fetus
• (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
• (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus

§Etymology

From Latin fētus (“offspring”).

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiːtəs/
• Rhymes: -iːtəs

§Noun

fetus (plural fetuses)

1. (Canada, US) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
2. (Canada, US) A human embryo after the 8^th week of gestation.

   The sequence is; molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.

§Usage notes

• The form fetus is preferred in North America and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in Commonwealth nations.

§Derived terms

• fetal

§Translations

fetus

• Arabic: جنين m (janiin), حمل m (Haml)
• Armenian: պտուղ (hy) (ptuł)
• Asturian: fetu m
• Bulgarian: зародиш (bg) m (zarodiš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胎兒, 胎儿 (zh) (tāi'ér), 胎 (zh) (tāi)

• Czech: plod (cs) m
• Danish: foster (da) n
• Dutch: foetus (nl) n
• Esperanto: feto
• Faroese: fostur n
• Finnish: sikiö (fi)
• French: fœtus (fr) m
• German: Fötus (de) n
• Greek: έμβρυο (el) n (émvryo)
• Hebrew: עובר m (‘ubbar)
• Hindi: भ्रूण (bhrūṇa)
• Icelandic: fóstur (is) n

• Indonesian: janin (id)
• Italian: feto (it) m
• Japanese: 胎児 (たいじ, taiji)
• Khmer: គភ៌ (km) (koar)
• Korean: 태아 (ko) (胎兒, tae-a)
• Latin: fetus
• Latvian: auglis (lv) m
• Malay: fetus, janin, janin
• Norwegian: foster n
• Polish: płód (pl) m
• Portuguese: feto (pt) m
• Quechua: sullu
• Romanian: făt (ro) m
• Russian: плод (ru) m (plod)
• Serbo-Croatian: фетус m
• Slovak: plod m
• Spanish: feto m
• Swedish: foster (sv) n

§See also

• embryo
• Fetus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

§References

• Health Online

§Anagrams

• UTFSE

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§Latin

§Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfeː.tus/, [ˈfeː.tʊs]

§Adjective

fētus m (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second declension

1. pregnant, full of young
2. fruitful, productive
3. of one who has recently given birth; nursing

§Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	fētus	fēta	fētum		fētī	fētae	fēta
genitive	fētī	fētae	fētī		fētōrum	fētārum	fētōrum
dative	fētō	fētae	fētō		fētīs	fētīs	fētīs
accusative	fētum	fētam	fētum		fētōs	fētās	fēta
ablative	fētō	fētā	fētō		fētīs	fētīs	fētīs
vocative	fēte	fēta	fētum		fētī	fētae	fēta

§Descendants

• Spanish: jeda

§Noun

fētus m (genitive fētūs); fourth declension

1. A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
2. Offspring, young, progeny.
3. Fruit, produce.
4. (figuratively) Growth, production.

§Inflection

Fourth declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	fētus	fētūs
genitive	fētūs	fētuum
dative	fētuī	fētibus
accusative	fētum	fētūs
ablative	fētū	fētibus
vocative	fētus	fētūs

§Descendants

• Aromanian: fetu, featã
• English: fetus, fawn
• Friulian: fede
• Istro-Romanian: fetĕ
• Italian: feto
• Occitan: feda

• Portuguese: feto
• Romanian: făt, fată
• Sardinian: fedu, fetu, etu, fedus
• Spanish: feto
• Venetian: feda

§Related terms

• fētālia
• fētificō
• fētō

• fētōsus
• fētūra
• fētūrātus

§References

• fetus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879

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§Serbo-Croatian

§Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fěːtus/
• Hyphenation: fe‧tus

§Noun

fétus m (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус)

1. fetus

§Declension

    declension of fetus

	singular	plural
nominative	fetus	fetusi
genitive	fetusa	fetusa
dative	fetusu	fetusima
accusative	fetus	fetuse
vocative	fetuse	fetusi
locative	fetusu	fetusima
instrumental	fetusom	fetusima