metatarsus

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Latin meta-

Ancient Greek τᾰρσός (tărsós)bor.

Latin tarsus

Latin metatarsusbor.

English metatarsus

Borrowed from Latin metatarsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛtəˈtɑː(ɹ)səs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)səs

Noun

metatarsus (plural metatarsi)

1. The part of the foot between the toes and the ankle, especially its five bones.

   Synonym: instep

Coordinate terms

• metacarpus
• tarsus

Derived terms

• metatarsal
• metatarso- (metatars-)
• metatarsus adductus
• tarsometatarsus

Translations

part of the foot between the toes and the ankle

• Arabic: مُشْط اَلْقَدَم m (mušṭ al-qadam)

  Egyptian Arabic: مشط الرجل m (meshṭ el-regl)

• Bulgarian: костите на стъпалото (kostite na stăpaloto)
• Catalan: metatars m
• Czech: nárt (cs) m inan
• Esperanto: metatarso (eo)
• Estonian: jalalaba, pöid
• Finnish: jalkapöydän luut pl, jalkapöytä (fi)
• French: métatarse (fr) m
• German: Mittelfuß (de) m
• Hungarian: lábközép (hu)
• Italian: metatarso (it) m
• Latin: metatarsus m
• Polish: śródstopie (pl) n
• Portuguese: metatarso m
• Russian: плюсна́ (ru) (pljusná)
• Slovak: predpriehlavok m
• Slovene: stopalnica f
• Spanish: metatarso (es) m
• Swedish: mellanfot (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: آیاق طراغی (ayak tarağı)

• Ukrainian: пле́сно n (plésno), плю́сно n (pljúsno)

See also

• bone

Latin

Etymology

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Latin meta-

Ancient Greek τᾰρσός (tărsós)bor.

Latin tarsus

Latin metatarsus

From meta- + tarsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛ.taˈtar.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [me.taˈtar.sus]

Noun

metatarsus m (genitive metatarsī); second declension

1. (New Latin, anatomy) metatarsus
   • 1946, Vladimir Šilhavý, “Nový rod a druh sekáčů, Odontosoma centetes, nov. gen., nov. spec. (Opiliones, subfamilia Phalangiinae)”, in Sborník Přírodovëdeckého klubu v Třebíči za rok 1939-1944. (overall work in Czech and Latin), Třebíč, page 56-57 of 55-57:

     In direcione apicali longitudo aculeorum abreviatur, metatarsis et tarsis praeter aliquos denticulos basales longioribus setis, inter quas densiores pilli, obsitis.

     In the apical direction, the length of the spines is shortened, the metatarsi and tarsi being covered with longer setae, including denser pilus, in addition to some basal denticles.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	metatarsus	metatarsī
genitive	metatarsī	metatarsōrum
dative	metatarsō	metatarsīs
accusative	metatarsum	metatarsōs
ablative	metatarsō	metatarsīs
vocative	metatarse	metatarsī

Descendants

• → English: metatarsus