glande

See also: glandé

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡlɑ̃d/

Etymology 1

From Old French glandre, from Medical Latin glandula, from glāns, glāndem.

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (biology) Gland.
2. (medicine, non-technical) Swollen lymph node.
3. (medicine, non-technical) Tumor, growth.

Related terms

• gland

Descendants

• → Russian: гла́нда (glánda) (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

Deverbal of glander.

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. (slang) laze, lazing around, sloth

Further reading

• “glande”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. gland

Further reading

• “glande”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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Interlingua

Noun

glande (plural glandes)

1. acorn

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Interlingue

Noun

1. acorn

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glāndem. Compare the inherited doublet ghianda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandi)

1. glans

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡɫ̪än̪d̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlan.de/, [ˈɡlän̪d̪e]

Noun

(deprecated template usage) glande

1. ablative singular of glāns

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande. Cf. also landra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃d͡ʒi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɐ̃dɨ/
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande f (plural glandes)

1. glans (vascular body on the apex of the penis)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin glāns, glandem. Compare the inherited doublet lande or llande, now mostly regional/dialectal terms. Cf. also landre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlande/ [ˈɡlãn̪.d̪e]
• Hyphenation: glan‧de

Noun

glande m (plural glandes)

1. (anatomy) glans penis