medulla

See also: médulla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məˈdʌlə/, IPA^(key): /mɛˈdʌlə/

Noun

medulla (plural medullas or medullae or medullæ)

1. The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
2. (anatomy) The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
3. (anatomy) The medulla oblongata.
4. (botany) The internal tissue of a plant.

Derived terms

• medulla oblongata
• medullar
• medullary
• medulloblastoma

Translations

the inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones

• Kurdish:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: медула (ru) (medula)

the medulla oblongata

• Russian: продолговатый мозг (prodolgovatyj mozg)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Interlingua

Noun

medulla (plural medullas)

1. medulla

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps related to Latin medius, or Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈdul.la/, [mɛˈd̪ʊlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈdul.la/, [meˈd̪ulːä]

Noun

medulla f (genitive medullae); first declension

1. (anatomy) marrow
2. vocative singular of medulla

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	medulla	medullae
Genitive	medullae	medullārum
Dative	medullae	medullīs
Accusative	medullam	medullās
Ablative	medullā	medullīs
Vocative	medulla	medullae

Derived terms

• medullula (diminutive)

Descendants

• Aragonese: miollo
• Aromanian: mãduã, midulj
• Catalan: moll
• → Catalan: medul·la
• Corsican: marodda, marolla
• → English: medulla
• French: moelle
• → French: médulla
• Friulian: medole
• Galician: miolo, miola
• → Galician: medula
• Italian: midolla, midollo

• Occitan: mesolha, mesoth, mesolh
• Portuguese: miolo
• → Portuguese: medula
• Romanian: măduvă
• Sardinian: maodhu, maoddu, miuddu, meuddu, meduddu
• Sicilian: midudda, mirudda
• Spanish: meollo
• → Spanish: médula
• Venetian: mioła, miola, meoła, meola

Noun

(deprecated template usage) medullā f

1. ablative singular of medulla

References

• “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “medulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• medulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• medulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Niedermann, Max (1950) “Der Suffixtypus -ullus, -a, -um lateinischer Appellativa”, in Museum Helveticum‎^[1], pages 156–157