vesica

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛsɪkə/, IPA^(key): /ˈviːsɪkə/

Noun

vesica (plural vesicae)

1. (anatomy) A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
2. (art) The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• vesica biliaris
• vesica fellea
• vesical

• vesica piscis
• vesica urinaria
• vesicle (-le diminutive)
• vesicula (-ula diminutive via Latin)

Translations

bladder

• Catalan: vesícula f
• Esperanto: veziko (eo)
• Ido: veziko (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: vescica (it) f
• Swedish: blåsa (sv) c

Anagrams

• cavies

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Interlingua

Noun

vesica (plural vesicas)

1. bladder

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wend-tri-, see also venter, uterus and German Wanst.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯eːˈsiː.ka/, [u̯eːˈs̠iːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /veˈsi.ka/, [veˈs̬iːkä]

Noun

vēsīca f (genitive vēsīcae); first declension

1. (anatomy) bladder, urinary bladder

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vēsīca	vēsīcae
Genitive	vēsīcae	vēsīcārum
Dative	vēsīcae	vēsīcīs
Accusative	vēsīcam	vēsīcās
Ablative	vēsīcā	vēsīcīs
Vocative	vēsīca	vēsīcae

Derived terms

• vēsīcō
• vēsīcula

Descendants

• → English: vesica
• → Romanian: vezică
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vēssīca
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: bishicã, bishãcã
    • Romanian: bășică, beșică — regional
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: vexiga
    • Galician: vexiga
    • Mozarabic: [script needed] (bešíka)
    • Portuguese: bexiga
    • Spanish: vejiga
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: vescica
    • Sardinian: buscica, bussica, piscica, busuca
    • Sicilian: viscica, vuscica, buscica
    • Venetian: vesiga
  • Old French: vessie, vecie
    • Middle French: vessie
      • French: vessie
    • Norman: vessie
    • Walloon: vexheye
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: veixiga
    • Occitan: vessiga, veishiga
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: vissie
    • Romansch: vaschia, vischigia, vascheia, vschia
  • → Albanian: fshikë

References

• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vesica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vesica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.