palpebra

See also: pálpebra

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin palpebra

Noun

palpebra (plural palpebrae)

1. The eyelid.

Related terms

• palpebral

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “palpebra”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• rappable

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pəlˈpe.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pəlˈpe.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [palˈpe.bɾa]

Noun

palpebra f (plural palpebres)

1. Alternative form of parpella

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Interlingua

Noun

palpebra (plural palpebras)

1. eyelid

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin palpebra (“eyelid”), from palpō (“touch softly; caress, flatter”).

Noun

palpebra f (plural palpebre)

1. eyelid

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Latin

Etymology

From palp(e) (“touch softly; caress, flatter”) +‎ -bra.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.pe.bra/, [ˈpäɫ̪pɛbrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpal.pe.bra/, [ˈpälpebrä]

Noun

palpebra f (genitive palpebrae); first declension

1. (anatomy) eyelid
2. (in the plural) eyelashes

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	palpebra	palpebrae
Genitive	palpebrae	palpebrārum
Dative	palpebrae	palpebrīs
Accusative	palpebram	palpebrās
Ablative	palpebrā	palpebrīs
Vocative	palpebra	palpebrae

Derived terms

• palpebrālis
• palpebrāris
• palpebrō

Related terms

• palpābilis
• palpāmen
• palpāmentum
• palpātiō
• palpātor
• palpebrātiō

• palpitātiō
• palpitātus
• palpitō
• palpō
• palpus

Descendants

• Asturian: párpagu, párpadu
• Catalan: palpebra, parpella
• English: palpebra
• French: paupière
• Friulian: palpiere

• Galician: pálpebra
• Italian: palpebra
• Portuguese: pálpebra
• Spanish: pálpebra, párpado
• Venetian: palpiera, palpera

See also

• oculus

References

• “palpebra”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• palpebra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.