skelet

English

Etymology

See scelet and skeleton.

Noun

skelet (plural skelets)

1. (obsolete) A skeleton.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “skelet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tekles

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch skelet, from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).

Noun

skelet (plural skelette, diminutive skeletjie)

1. skeleton

   Synonym: geraamte

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɛˈlɛt/

Noun

skelet m (plural skeletë, definite skeleti, definite plural skeletët)

1. skeleton

Declension

Declension of skelet

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	skelet	skeleti	skeletë	skeletët
accusative		skeletin
dative	skeleti	skeletit	skeletëve	skeletëve
ablative			skeletësh

Related terms

• skeletor

Synonyms

• zgorre

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Skelett, from Ancient Greek σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκελλώ (skellṓ, “to dry, dry up, to make dry, to parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skəˈlɛt/, /skeːˈlɛt/

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• Hyphenation: ske‧let
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

skelet n (plural skeletten, diminutive skeletje n)

1. skeleton (support structure of an organism; ensemble of animal bones)

   Synonym: geraamte

2. (figurative) frame, skeleton (supporting frame of an inanimate or non-animal object or entity)

Derived terms

• bouwskelet
• dierenskelet
• endoskelet
• exoskelet
• kraakbeenskelet
• skeletaal
• skeletbouw
• skeletnaald
• skeletspier

Descendants

• Afrikaans: skelet

Anagrams

• kletse

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Serbo-Croatian

Noun

skèlet m (Cyrillic spelling скѐлет)

1. (anatomy) skeleton

Declension

Declension of skelet

	singular	plural
nominative	skèlet	skeleti
genitive	skeleta	skȅlētā
dative	skeletu	skeletima
accusative	skelet	skelete
vocative	skelete	skeleti
locative	skeletu	skeletima
instrumental	skeletom	skeletima