fetus
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (UK) foetus
- (UK, rare) fœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin fētus (“offspring”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fetus (plural fetuses or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii)
- (Australia, Canada, US) 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
- (Australia, Canada, US) A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
- The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
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.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fētus, attested from circa 1900.[1]
Noun[edit]
fetus m (plural fetus)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ “fetus” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
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.
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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]
Adjective[edit]
fētus (feminine fēta, neuter fētum); first/second-declension adjective
- pregnant, full of young
- fruitful, productive
- youthful, young
- of one who has recently given birth; nursing
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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 | fētō | fētīs | ||||
| Accusative | fētum | fētam | fētum | fētōs | fētās | fēta | |
| Ablative | fētō | fētā | fētō | fētīs | |||
| Vocative | fēte | fēta | fētum | fētī | fētae | fēta | |
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.
Declension[edit]
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fētus | fētūs |
| Genitive | fētūs | fētuum |
| Dative | fētuī | fētibus |
| Accusative | fētum | fētūs |
| Ablative | fētū | fētibus |
| Vocative | fētus | fētūs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- →? Albanian: *fosh
- Albanian: foshnjë
- Aromanian: fet(u), featã
- Catalan: feda, fetus
- → English: fetus, foetus
- Franco-Provençal: feya
- → French: fœtus
- Friulian: fede
- → Galician: feto
- Istro-Romanian: fetĕ
- Italian: feto
- Occitan: feda, fedon, fètus
- Old French: faon
- → Portuguese: feto
- Romanian: făt, fată
- Sardinian: fedu, fetu, etu, fedus
- → Spanish: feto
- → Tunisian Arabic: فيتوس (fitus)
- Venetian: feda
References[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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
fetus m (plural fetuși)
Declension[edit]
Declension of fetus
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fétus m (Cyrillic spelling фе́тус)
Declension[edit]
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