villus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪləs

Noun

villus (plural villi)

1. (biology) a small projection from a mucous membrane, particularly those found in the intestines

Translations

small projection from a mucous membrane

• Finnish: nukkalisäke
• Hebrew: סִיס‏‎ (he) m (sis)
• Irish: villeas m
• Korean: 융모 (yungmo)
• Malay: vilus, purasap

• Maori: tīngoingoi
• Portuguese: vilo m
• Slovak: klk m
• Swedish: villus (sv)

Related terms

• villous
• microvillus

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Latin

Etymology

Dialectal variant of vellus (“fleece”)

Noun

villus

1. (anatomy) hair, tuft of hair
2. shaggy hair

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	villus	villī
genitive	villī	villōrum
dative	villō	villīs
accusative	villum	villōs
ablative	villō	villīs
vocative	ville	villī

Derived terms

• villōsus
• villūtus (Late Latin)

Descendants

• English: villus
• Italian: villo, vello
• Spanish: vello

References

• villus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• villus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “villus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “villus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)