trachea

See also: Trachea

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɹəˈki.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹeɪki.ə/

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Noun

trachea (plural tracheas or tracheae or tracheæ)

1. (anatomy) A thin-walled, cartilaginous tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi; the windpipe.
2. (botany, dated) Xylem vessel.
3. (entomology) One of the cuticle-lined primary tubes in the respiratory system of an insect, which extend throughout its body.

Synonyms

• (tube connecting the larynx to the bronchi): windpipe
• (xylem vessel): vessel

Derived terms

• tracheal
• tracheary
• tracheid
• tracheitis
• tracheole
• tracheostomy
• tracheotomy

 

Translations

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

• Arabic: قَصَبَة هَوَائِيَّة‎ f (qaṣaba hawāʾiyya)
• Armenian: շնչափող (hy) (šnčʿapʿoł)
• Basque: trakea
• Catalan: tràquea f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣管, 气管 (hei³ gun²)

  Mandarin: 氣管 (zh), 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 (きかん, kikan)
• Kazakh: кеңірдек (keñirdek)
• Khmer: បំពង់សួត (bɑmpʊəŋ suǝt), បំពង់ខ្យល់ (bɑmpʊəŋ kyɑl)

• Korean: 숨통 (ko) (sumtong), 기도 (ko) (gido) (氣道 (ko)), 기관 (ko) (gigwan) (氣管 (ko)), 숨구멍 (sumgumeong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: borîhewa f

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

  Bokmål: luftrør n

  Nynorsk: luftrøyr f or n

• Plautdietsch: Loftrua n, Wintrua n
• Polish: tchawica (pl) f
• Portuguese: traqueia (pt) f
• 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
• Tok Pisin: mambu bilong nek
• Vietnamese: khí quản (vi) (氣管)
• Volapük: bron (vo)
• Welsh: pibell wynt f, breuant m, tracea

See also

• oesophagus, esophagus, gullet, throat

Anagrams

• atreach

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Italian

Etymology

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

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

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Portuguese

Noun

trachea f (plural tracheas)

1. Obsolete form of traqueia.