different between abdominal vs belly

English

Etymology

First attested in 1746. From New Latin abd?min?lis, from Latin abd?men. Equivalent to abdomen +? -al. Compare French abdominal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /æb?d?m.?.nl?/, /?b?d?m.?.nl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?d?m.?.nl?/, /?b?d?m.?.nl?/
• Hyphenation: ab?dom?i?nal

Adjective

abdominal (comparative more abdominal, superlative most abdominal)

1. Of or pertaining to the abdomen; ventral. [Mid 18^th century.]

2. (ichthyology) Having the ventral fins under the abdomen and behind the pectoral fins. [Mid 19^th century.]
3. (ichthyology) Ventral, in describing a fin. [Late 19^th century.]
4. (zoology, obsolete) Belonging to the order Abdominales of fish.

Synonyms

• (of or pertaining to the abdomen): ventral

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

abdominal (plural abdominals)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A fish of the order Abdominales.
2. (colloquial, usually plural only) An abdominal muscle. [Mid 20^th century.]

Synonyms

• (fish): Cypriniformes.

References

Catalan

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?b.do.mi?nal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b.du.mi?nal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ab.do.mi?nal/

Adjective

abdominal (masculine and feminine plural abdominals)

1. abdominal

Related terms

• abdomen

French

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.d?.mi.nal/
• Homophones: abdominale, abdominales

Adjective

abdominal (feminine singular abdominale, masculine plural abdominaux, feminine plural abdominales)

1. abdominal; of the abdomen.

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apdomi?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

abdominal (not comparable)

1. abdominal

Declension

Interlingua

Adjective

abdominal (not comparable)

1. abdominal

Related terms

• abdomine

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis (“abdominal”), from Latin abd?men (“belly, abdomen; gluttony”) (with the suffix -?lis (forms adjectives), from Proto-Indo-European *-li-, possibly from *h?el- (“to grow, nourish”)), 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).

Equivalent to abdomen +? -al, first part 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). Last part from French -al (“-al”), from Middle French, from Old French -al, from Latin -?lis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abd?m??n??l/
• Rhymes: -??l
• Hyphenation: ab?do?mi?nal

Adjective

abdominal (neuter singular abdominalt, definite singular and plural abdominale, comparative mer abdominal, superlative mest abdominal)

1. (anatomy, medicine) abdominal (of or pertaining to the abdomen)

   abdominalt støttebelte ved brokk

   abdominal support belt for hernia

Related terms

• abdomen (“abdomen”)

See also

• bakkropp (“abdomen, hind body”)
• buk (“abdomen”)
• bukhule (“peritoneum”)

References

• “abdominal” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “abdominal” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ab(i)dom??na??/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a?ðom??na?/
• Hyphenation: ab?do?mi?nal

Adjective

abdominal m or f (plural abdominais, not comparable)

1. abdominal

Noun

abdominal m (plural abdominais)

1. sit-up

Related terms

• abdómen

Romanian

Etymology

From French abdominal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ab.do.mi?nal/

Adjective

abdominal m or n (feminine singular abdominal?, masculine plural abdominali, feminine and neuter plural abdominale)

1. abdominal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From New Latin abd?min?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abdomi?nal/, [a??.ð?o.mi?nal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: ab?do?mi?nal

Adjective

abdominal (plural abdominales)

1. abdominal

Noun

abdominal m (plural abdominales)

1. abdominal muscle
2. sit-up

Related terms

• abdomen

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

abdomen +? -al

Adjective

abdominal (not comparable)

1. abdominal

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English belg, bælg, bæli? (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el??- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg. Doublet of blague. See also bellows.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?li/
• Rhymes: -?li
• Hyphenation: bel?ly

Noun

belly (plural bellies)

1. The abdomen, especially a fat one.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

2. The stomach.

3. The womb.
4. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 454:

     There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.

5. The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
6. (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

Usage notes

• Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: bere

Translations

See also

• abdomen
• bouk
• have eyes bigger than one's belly
• stomach
• tummy

Verb

belly (third-person singular simple present bellies, present participle bellying, simple past and past participle bellied)

1. To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
   • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 7,^[1]

     Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.

2. (intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, “The Rhyme of the Three Captains,”^[2]

     The halliards twanged against the tops, the bunting bellied broad,

   • 1914, Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness, Chapter 6,^[3]

     There were trees whose trunks bellied into huge swellings.

   • 1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I"

     winds from sternward

     Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...

   • 1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1,^[4]

     The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.

3. (transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act II, Scene 2,^[5]

     Your breath of full consent bellied his sails;

   • 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, Chapter I, I,^[6]

     A breeze which had crossed a thousand miles of wheat-lands bellied her taffeta skirt in a line so graceful, so full of animation and moving beauty, that the heart of a chance watcher on the lower road tightened to wistfulness over her quality of suspended freedom.

Derived terms

• bellying
• belly out
• belly up