gingiva

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Derived terms

• gingival
• gingivitis

Translations

gum — see gum

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡinˈɡiː.u̯a/, [ɡɪŋˈɡiːu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒinˈd͡ʒi.va/, [d͡ʒin̠ʲˈd͡ʒiːvä]

Noun

gingīva f (genitive gingīvae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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 Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.