vomer

See also: vómer, vòmer, and vômer

English

WOTD – 9 August 2010

Etymology

From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).

Noun

vomer (plural vomers)

1. (anatomy) The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.

Translations

vomer bone — see vomer bone

Anagrams

• mover

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vōmer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.mɛʁ/

• Audio:

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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

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯oː.mer/, [ˈu̯oːmɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.mer/, [ˈvɔːmer]

Noun

vōmer m (genitive vōmeris); third declension

1. ploughshare
2. (informal) penis

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vōmer	vōmerēs
Genitive	vōmeris	vōmerum
Dative	vōmerī	vōmeribus
Accusative	vōmerem	vōmerēs
Ablative	vōmere	vōmeribus
Vocative	vōmer	vōmerēs

Derived terms

• vōmeronāsālis

Descendants

• Aragonese: huembre
• Aromanian: vomirã
• Catalan: vòmer
• English: vomer

• French: vomer
• Italian: vomere
• Portuguese: vómer

References

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