thalamus

See also: Thalamus

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin thalamus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “an inner chamber, a bedroom, a bed”).

Noun

thalamus (plural thalami or thalamuses)

1. (anatomy) Either of two large, ovoid structures of grey matter within the forebrain that relay sensory impulses to the cerebral cortex.
2. (botany) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.
3. A thallus.
4. An inner room or nuptial chamber.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hypothalamus
• thalamectomy

• thalamic
• thalamically

Translations

anatomy: structure within forebrain

• Arabic: المِهاد m (al-mihaad)
• Bengali: থ্যালামাস (thêlamaś)
• Catalan: tàlem m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 丘腦／丘脑 (jau¹ nou⁵), 丘脑 (jau¹ nou⁵)

  Mandarin: 丘腦／丘脑 (zh) (qiūnǎo), 丘脑 (zh) (qiūnǎo)

• Czech: thalamus m, talamus m
• Dutch: thalamus (nl) m
• Finnish: talamus
• French: thalamus (fr) m
• German: Thalamus m
• Greek: θάλαμος (el) m (thálamos)
• Hungarian: talamusz, látótelep
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: talamas m
• Japanese: 視床 (ししょう, shishō)
• Kazakh: көру төмпегі (köru tömpegı)
• Korean: 시상 (ko) (sisang) (視床)
• Malay: talamus
• Persian: تالاموس (fa) (tâlâmus)
• Polish: wzgórze (pl) n
• Portuguese: tálamo (pt) m
• Russian: тала́мус (ru) m (talámus)
• Spanish: tálamo (es) m
• Swedish: talamus (sv)
• Turkish: talamus
• Vietnamese: đồi não, đồi thị

botany:receptacle of a flower — see receptacle

thallus — see thallus

Further reading

• “thalamus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “thalamus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “thalamus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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Czech

Alternative forms

• talamus

Noun

1. thalamus

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θάλαμος (thálamos, “inner room”), especially from Homer.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈtʰa.la.mus/, [ˈt̪ʰäɫ̪ämʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.la.mus/, [ˈt̪äːlämus]

Noun

thalamus m (genitive thalamī); second declension

1. inner room, apartment of a house
2. bedroom, chamber
3. marriage bed
4. (by extension, figuratively) marriage

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	thalamus	thalamī
Genitive	thalamī	thalamōrum
Dative	thalamō	thalamīs
Accusative	thalamum	thalamōs
Ablative	thalamō	thalamīs
Vocative	thalame	thalamī

Descendants

• → English: thalamus
• Galician: tambo (obsolete)
• Italian: talamo
• Spanish: tálamo

References

• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “thalamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• thalamus 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)
• thalamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “thalamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “thalamus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray