gingiva

English

Etymology

From Latin gingiva (“gums”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɪndʒɪvə/, /dʒɪnˈdʒaɪvə/

Noun

gingiva (plural gingivae)

1. (anatomy) The gum, consisting of the tissue surrounding the roots of the teeth and covering the jawbone.

Translations

gum — see gum

Derived terms

• gingival
• gingivitis

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (compare English chew, Tocharian B śuwaṃ (“eat”), Polish żuję (“I chew”), Persian جویدن‏ (ǰavīdan), Pashto [script needed] (žovạl, “to bite, gnaw”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡinˈɡiː.wa/, [ɡɪŋˈɡiː.wa]

Noun

gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension

1. (anatomy) gum (in which the teeth are set)

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gingīva	gingīvae
genitive	gingīvae	gingīvārum
dative	gingīvae	gingīvīs
accusative	gingīvam	gingīvās
ablative	gingīvā	gingīvīs
vocative	gingīva	gingīvae

Descendants

• Aragonese: cheniva
• Aromanian: dzindzii, dzindzie
• Asturian: enxiva, xenxiva
• Catalan: geniva
• → English: gingiva
• Extremaduran: gengiva
• Franco-Provençal: gengiva
• French: gencive
• Friulian: zinzie, gingìe
• Galician: enxiva
• Italian: gengiva

• Norman: denchive
• Occitan: gengiva
• Portuguese: gengiva
• Romanian: gingie
• Sardinian: ghinghía, sénsia, benzía
• Sicilian: gingili, cincili, zinzìa
• Spanish: encía
• Venetian: zinzìva, zenzìva, xenxìva

References

• gingiva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gingiva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “gingiva” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)