meatus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin meātus (“a course, passing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈeɪt.əs/
• Rhymes: -eɪtəs

Noun

meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)

1. (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage in the body.

   The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.

Derived terms

• meatal
• meatometer
• meatoscope
• meatotomy
• urinary meatus

 

Translations

tubular opening

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 道 (zh) (dào), 口 (zh) (kǒu)

• Finnish: aukko (fi), meatus (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: meato m
• Spanish: meato (es) m

See also

• ear canal
• foramen

Anagrams

• Matsue, autems, mutase

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of meō (“go, pass”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈaː.tus/, [meˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈa.tus/, [meˈäːt̪us]

Noun

meātus m (genitive meātūs); fourth declension

1. (poetic) movement, course
2. a path, passage

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meātus	meātūs
Genitive	meātūs	meātuum
Dative	meātuī	meātibus
Accusative	meātum	meātūs
Ablative	meātū	meātibus
Vocative	meātus	meātūs

Descendants

• English: meatus
• Italian: meato

Participle

meātus (feminine meāta, neuter meātum); first/second-declension participle

1. gone, passed, traversed, having been passed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	meātus	meāta	meātum		meātī	meātae	meāta
Genitive	meātī	meātae	meātī		meātōrum	meātārum	meātōrum
Dative	meātō		meātō		meātīs
Accusative	meātum	meātam	meātum		meātōs	meātās	meāta
Ablative	meātō	meātā	meātō		meātīs
Vocative	meāte	meāta	meātum		meātī	meātae	meāta

References

• “meatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.