trachea

See also: Trachea

English

Etymology

From late Middle English, from Medieval Latin trāchēa (“the windpipe”) (also borrowed as Late Latin trāchīa), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîa, “jagged, rugged, rough”), ellipsis of τρᾱχεῖᾰ ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîa artēríā, “rough artery”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈkiː.ə/, /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪ.ki.ə/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -iːə, -eɪkiə

Noun

trachea (plural tracheae or (obsolete) tracheæ or tracheas)

1. (anatomy) A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi.

   Synonym: windpipe

2. (botany, dated) The xylem vessel.

   Synonym: vessel

3. (entomology) One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body.

Derived terms

• tracheal
• trachean
• tracheary
• tracheo-, trache-

 

Related terms

• tracheally
• tracheid
• tracheole

 

Translations

thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi

• Arabic: قَصَبَة هَوَائِيَّة‎ f (qaṣaba hawāʔiyya)
• Armenian: շնչափող (hy) (šnčʿapʿoġ)
• Basque: trakea
• Bengali: হলকুম (holokum)
• Bulgarian: трахея (bg) f (traheja)
• Catalan: tràquea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣管／气管 (hei³ gun²)

  Mandarin: 氣管／气管 (zh) (qìguǎn)

  Min Nan: 肺管 (zh-min-nan) (hì-kńg)

• Czech: průdušnice (cs) f
• Danish: luftrør (da)
• Dutch: trachee (de) (nl), trachea (nl) f, luchtpijp (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: traĥeo
• Finnish: henkitorvi (fi)
• French: trachée (fr) f
• Galician: tráquea (gl) f, gorgoiro m
• German: Trachea m
• Greek: τραχεία (el) f (tracheía)

  Ancient: βρόγχος m (brónkhos)

• Greenlandic: torluk
• Hungarian: légcső (hu)
• Irish: píobán garbh m, traicé f, píobán m (familiar), aerchonair f
• Italian: trachea (it) f
• Japanese: 気管 (ja) (きかん, kikan)
• Kazakh: кеңірдек (keñırdek)
• Khmer: បំពង់សួត (bɑmpʊəŋ suǝt), បំពង់ខ្យល់ (bɑmpʊəŋ kyɑl)
• Korean: 숨통 (ko) (sumtong), 기도(氣道) (ko) (gido), 기관(氣管) (ko) (gigwan), 숨구멍 (sumgumeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: borîhewa f

• Latin: trachia f
• Latvian: elpvads m, traheja f
• Lithuanian: kvėplė f
• Maori: pūkorokoro, arahau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftrør n

  Nynorsk: luftrøyr f or n

• Ottoman Turkish: بوغاز‎ (boğaz)
• Plautdietsch: Loftrua n, Wintrua n
• Polish: tchawica (pl) f
• Portuguese: traqueia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਾਹ ਨਾਲ਼ੀ f (sāh nāḷī)
• Russian: трахе́я (ru) f (traxéja), дыха́тельное го́рло n (dyxátelʹnoje górlo)
• Scottish Gaelic: sgòrnan m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ду̀шнӣк m, трахе́ја f

  Roman: dùšnīk (sh) m, trahéja (sh) f

• Slovene: sapnik (sl) m
• Spanish: tráquea (es) f
• Swedish: luftstrupe (sv)
• Tagalog: hihingahan
• Thai: หลอดลม (th) (lɔ̀ɔt-lom), ท่อลม
• Tibetan: གློ་སྦུབས (glo sbubs)
• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek
• Vietnamese: khí quản (vi) (氣管)
• Volapük: bron (vo)
• Welsh: pibell wynt f, breuant m, tracea

See also

• esophagus
• gullet
• throat

 

References

• “trachea”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “trachea”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• atreach

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtraxɛa]

Noun

trachea f (related adjective tracheální)

1. (anatomy) trachea

Declension

Declension of trachea (technical feminine in -ea)

	singular	plural
nominative	trachea	trachey
genitive	trachey	tracheí
dative	trachei	tracheám, tracheím
accusative	tracheu	trachey
vocative	tracheo	trachey
locative	trachei	tracheách, tracheích
instrumental	tracheou	tracheami

Further reading

• trachea in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• trachea in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• trachea in Internetová jazyková příručka

Italian

Etymology

From Latin trachia (“windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τραχεῖα (trakheîa, “windpipe”), feminine of τραχύς (trakhús, “rugged, rough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /traˈkɛ.a/
• Rhymes: -ɛa
• Hyphenation: tra‧chè‧a

Noun

trachea f (plural trachee)

1. (anatomy) trachea, windpipe
2. (botany) trachea

Derived terms

• tracheale
• tracheide
• tracheite
• tracheo-
• tracheobronchite
• tracheoscopia
• tracheotomia

 

See also

• esofago
• gola

Latin

Etymology

From Late Latin trachia (“windpipe”), from Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖα (trākheîa, “jagged, rugged, rough”), ellipsis of τρᾱχεῖα ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (trākheîa artēríā, “rough artery”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /traːˈkʰeː.a/, [t̪räːˈkʰeːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /traˈke.a/, [t̪räˈkɛːä]

Noun

trāchēa f (genitive trāchēae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1. (anatomy) the windpipe, trachea

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	trāchēa	trāchēae
Genitive	trāchēae	trāchēārum
Dative	trāchēae	trāchēīs
Accusative	trāchēam	trāchēās
Ablative	trāchēā	trāchēīs
Vocative	trāchēa	trāchēae

Descendants

• Middle English:
  • English: trachea

Portuguese

Noun

trachea f (plural tracheas)

1. Obsolete form of traqueia.