ureter

See also: uréter, uretër, and urèter

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οὐρητήρ (ourētḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jʊəˈɹiːtə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

ureter (plural ureters)

1. (anatomy) Either of the two long, narrow ducts that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.

Holonyms

• urinary tract

Derived terms

• hydroureter
• megaloureter
• megaureter
• ureteral
• ureteralgia
• ureterectomy
• ureteric
• ureteritis
• ureteroscope
• ureteroscopic
• ureteroscopy
• ureterotomy

Translations

narrow duct that carries urine from the kidneys

• Albanian: ujëhollërrjedhës m
• Arabic: حَالِب m (ḥālib)

  Egyptian Arabic: حالب m (ḥāleb)

• Armenian: միզածորան (hy) (mizacoran)
• Belarusian: мачато́чнік f (mačatóčnik)
• Bulgarian: пикочопрово́д m (pikočoprovód)
• Catalan: urèter m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輸尿管 / 输尿管 (zh) (shūniàoguǎn)

• Czech: močovod (cs) m
• Danish: urinleder (da) c
• Esperanto: uretero n
• Estonian: kusejuha
• Finnish: virtsanjohdin (fi)
• French: uretère (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Harnleiter (de) m, (technical) Ureter (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: οὐρητήρ m (ourētḗr)

• Hebrew: שׁוֹפְכָן m (shofkhán)
• Hindi: मूत्रनली f (mūtranlī)
• Hungarian: húgyvezeték (hu)
• Indonesian: ureter (id)
• Ingrian: kusitrubka
• Irish: úiréadar m
• Italian: uretere (it) m
• Japanese: 尿管 (ja) (にょうかん, nyōkan), 輸尿管 (ja) (ゆにょうかん, yunyōkan)
• Kashubian: mòczowód m
• Kazakh: зәрағар (zärağar), несепағар (nesepağar)
• Korean: 수뇨관(輸尿管) (sunyogwan)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: میزبۆری (mîzborî)

  Northern Kurdish: borrîmîz f

• Latin: ūrētēr m
• Latvian: urīnvadi
• Lithuanian: šlapimtakis m
• Māori: ara mimi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urinleder m

• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: moczowód (pl) m
• Portuguese: uréter (pt) m, ureter (pt) m
• Romanian: ureter (ro) n
• Russian: мочето́чник (ru) m (močetóčnik), уретра (ru) f (uretra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мокраћовод m

  Latin: mokraćovod m

• Slovak: močovod (sk) m
• Slovene: sečevod (sl) m
• Spanish: uréter (es) m
• Swedish: urinledare (sv) c, uretär (sv) c
• Tagalog: daang-ihi
• Thai: ท่อไต (tɔ̂ɔ-dtai)
• Turkish: üreter (tr)
• Ukrainian: сечові́д m (sečovíd)
• Vietnamese: ống dẫn đái, niệu quản (vi)
• Volapük: yurinidugian (vo)

See also

• urethra

Anagrams

• Reuter, Rueter

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ūrētēr, from Ancient Greek οὐρητήρ (ourētḗr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /uˈretər/ [uˈre.t̪ər]
• Rhymes: -etər
• Syllabification: u‧re‧ter

Noun

ureter (plural ureter-ureter)

1. (anatomy) ureter

Further reading

• “ureter”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-der.

Ancient Greek οὐρέω (ouréō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr

Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)

Ancient Greek οὐρητήρ (ourētḗr)bor.

Latin ūrētēr

Borrowed from Ancient Greek οὐρητήρ (ourētḗr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈreː.teːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈrɛː.ter]

Noun

ūrētēr m (genitive ūrētēris); third declension

1. (anatomy) ureter

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūrētēr	ūrētērēs
genitive	ūrētēris	ūrētērum
dative	ūrētērī	ūrētēribus
accusative	ūrētērem	ūrētērēs
ablative	ūrētēre	ūrētēribus
vocative	ūrētēr	ūrētērēs

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ɾeˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [u.ɾeˈtɛ(h)]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /u.ɾeˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [u.ɾeˈtɛ(h)]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /u.ɾeˈtɛ(ɾ)/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /u.ɾeˈtɛ(ʁ)/ [u.ɾeˈtɛ(χ)]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /u.ɾeˈtɛ(ɻ)/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ɾɨˈtɛɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ɾɨˈtɛɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /u.ɾɨˈtɛ.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: u‧re‧ter

Noun

ureter m (plural ureteres)

1. alternative form of uréter

Further reading

• “ureter”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ureter”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French uretère.

Noun

ureter n (plural uretere)

1. ureter

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	ureter	ureterul	uretere	ureterele
genitive-dative	ureter	ureterului	uretere	ureterelor
vocative	ureterule		ureterelor