vomer

See also: vómer, vòmer, and vômer

English

WOTD – 9 August 2010

Etymology

From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊmə(ɹ)/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -oʊmə(ɹ)

Noun

vomer (plural vomers)

1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
   • 1925, Samuel Wendell Williston, "Chapter 1" in The Osteology of the Reptiles

     Only in the Chelonia (Fig. 32 b) are the prevomers single, though sometimes fused in the Rhiptoglossa, Theropoda, and Theriodontia (Figs. 43 c, 44 e). They are edentulous in all known reptiles except the Cotylosauria (Fig. 6), some Theromorpha, perhaps, certain "Pseudosuchia," Diaptosauria (Fig. 63), and Squamata. Posteriorly in the Squamata (Figs. 55 c, 56 b) they articulate with the palatines only, as also in some Chelonia (Figs. 31 a, 32 b) and Plesiosauria (Fig. 46 b). Generally believed not to represent the unpaired vomer of the mammals.

Translations

vomer bone — see vomer bone

Anagrams

• mover

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vōmer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.mɛʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

vomer m (plural vomers)

1. vomer, vomer bone

Further reading

• “vomer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• morve

Latin

Alternative forms

• vōmis

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to move”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwoː.mɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvɔː.mer]

Noun

vōmer m (genitive vōmeris); third declension

1. ploughshare

   vomere findere terras ― to cleave the earth by plow

2. (informal) penis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vōmer	vōmerēs
genitive	vōmeris	vōmerum
dative	vōmerī	vōmeribus
accusative	vōmerem	vōmerēs
ablative	vōmere	vōmeribus
vocative	vōmer	vōmerēs

Derived terms

• vōmeronāsālis

Descendants

• Balkano-Romance:
  • Aromanian: vomirã
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: vomere, vomero
  • Sicilian: vòmmiru
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: huembre
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: vòmer
  • → English: vomer
    • → Irish: vómar
  • → French: vomer
    • → Romanian: vomer
  • → Galician: vómer
  • → Ido: vomero
  • → Portuguese: vómer
  • → Spanish: vómer

References

• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vomer in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• “vomer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vomer”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French vomer.

Noun

vomer n (plural vomere)

1. vomer, vomer bone

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	vomer	vomerul	vomere	vomerele
genitive-dative	vomer	vomerului	vomere	vomerelor
vocative	vomerule		vomerelor