different between abdomen vs billy

English

Etymology

First attested in 1541. Borrowed from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abdomen, possibly from abd? (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + *d?re (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.d?.m?n/, /æb?d??.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æb.d?.m?n/, /æb?do?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -??m?n

Noun

abdomen (plural abdomens or abdomina)

1. (obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly. [mid 16th c. – late 17th c.]
2. (anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions. [from early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: belly, tummy, (informal) stomach; see also Thesaurus:belly

3. (anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. [from early 17th c.]

4. (zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda. [from late 18th c.]

Related terms

• abdominal
• abdominally
• abdominous

Translations

References

• abdomen at OneLook Dictionary Search

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: abdo?men

Etymology 1

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Noun

abdomen (plural abdomina or abdomens, diminutive abdomentjie)

1. (anatomy) abdomen

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?b?d?.m?n/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ab?do.men/

Noun

abdomen m (plural abdòmens)

1. abdomen

Derived terms

• abdominal

French

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.d?.m?n/

Noun

abdomen m (plural abdomens)

1. abdomen

Derived terms

• abdominal

Further reading

• “abdomen” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch abdomen, from Middle French abdomen, from Latin abd?men, possibly from abd? (“conceal”), from ab (“away”) + *dere (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ap?do.m?n] (Standard)
• IPA^(key): [ap?do.m?n] (Latinised)
• Hyphenation: ab?do?mên

Noun

abdomên (first-person possessive abdomenku, second-person possessive abdomenmu, third-person possessive abdomennya)

1. (anatomy, entomology, zoology) abdomen

Further reading

• “abdomen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

Of unclear origin; often suggested to be from abd? (“to hide, conceal”) +? -men, though de Vaan doesn't find this convincing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab?do?.men/, [äb?d?o?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab?do.men/, [?b?d???m?n]

Noun

abd?men n (genitive abd?minis); third declension

1. (anatomy) belly, abdomen
2. (by extension of meaning) gluttony

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• abd?min?lis

Descendants

References

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

Malay

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abdom?n/

Noun

abdomen (Jawi spelling ???????, plural abdomen-abdomen, informal 1st possessive abdomenku, impolite 2nd possessive abdomenmu, 3rd possessive abdomennya)

1. abdomen (belly)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin abd?men (“belly, abdomen; gluttony”), possibly from both abd? (“I hide, conceal”), from ab- (“from, away, off”), from ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h?epó (“off, away”) (+ the ending *d? (“put”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to do, put, place”)) + and from -men (forms neuter nouns), from Proto-Italic *-men, from Proto-Indo-European *-mn? (creates action nouns or result nouns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab?du?m?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Hyphenation: ab?do?men

Noun

abdomen n (definite singular abdomenet, indefinite plural abdomen or abdomina, definite plural abdomena or abdomenene or abdominaene)

1. (anatomy, entomology) abdomen, belly (or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis)

   Synonyms: buk, underliv

2. (zoology, entomology) abdomen (the posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda)

   Synonym: bakkropp

Derived terms

• abdominal

References

• “abdomen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abdomen” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “abdomen” in Store medisinske leksikon
• “abdomen (zoology)” in Store norske leksikon

Polish

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab?d?.m?n/

Noun

abdomen m inan

1. (anatomy) abdomen (of a person)

   Synonym: brzuch

2. (arthropod anatomy) abdomen (of an insect)

   Synonym: odw?ok

Declension

Derived terms

• abdominalny

Further reading

• abdomen in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• abdomen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French abdomen, Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.do?men/

Noun

abdomen n (plural abdomene)

1. (anatomy) abdomen, belly

   Synonyms: burt?, pântece, vintre

Declension

Related terms

• abdominal

See also

• stomac

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abd??men/
• Hyphenation: ab?do?men

Noun

abdómen m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. abdomen

Declension

Synonyms

• tr?buh (“stomach”)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab?domen/, [a???ð?o.m?n]

Noun

abdomen m (plural abdómenes)

1. abdomen

   Synonym: vientre

Related terms

• abdominal

Further reading

• “abdomen” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Turkish

Etymology

From Latin abd?men.

Noun

abdomen (definite accusative abdomeni, plural abdomenler)

1. abdomen

Derived terms

• abdominal

References

Ni?anyan Sözlük: "abdomen"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li

Etymology 1

• Of obscure origin. Perhaps from the name Billy, a diminutive of William, or a variant of bully (“companion, mate, comrade”). Compare Scots billie (“a comrade; companion”).
• (condom): From the E-Rotic song Willy, Use a Billy... Boy.

Noun

billy (plural billies)

1. A billy club.
2. A billy goat.
   • 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries, Field & Stream, page 62,

     Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies.

   • 1992, Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus), in Bowhunter's Encyclopedia, page 276,

     In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
   1. A male goat; a ram.
3. (Tyneside) A good friend.
4. (slang) A condom.
5. A slubbing or roving machine.
   • 1840, The Citizen, page 347,

     […] at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies, giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”

Derived terms

• billy buttons
• billy cart
• billygoat
• hillbilly
• Silly Billy, silly billy

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin, but probably extracted from Scots billypot (“a type of cooking pot”).

Noun

billy (plural billies)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A tin with a swing handle used to boil tea over an open fire; a billycan; a billypot.

   Let's get the billy and cook some beans.

   • 1889, Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed, 2004, page 239,

     We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies, the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with billies with no bottoms?

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Loyalty," [4]

     Mother prepared a splendid picnic. […] Rugs, food and the black billy for making tea, were packed into the old baby buggy and we trundled it straight down Simcoe Street.

   • 2011, Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country, unnumbered page,

     Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies, a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.

2. (Australia, slang) A bong for smoking marijuana.

Translations

Derived terms

• billy boy
• billy bread
• billycan, billy-can
• billyful
• billy lid
• billy tea
• Christmas billy

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• Sceilig: Information Pack for Troops (p. 4)
• The Patrol goes to Camp (pp. 9, 11).