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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /e????t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /e?????t?/

Noun

aorta (plural aortas or aortae)

1. (anatomy) The great artery which carries the blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs; the main trunk of the arterial system.
2. (figuratively) The liveliest part of something.

   Tracing their battles, I had many occasions to walk along Second Avenue, the aorta of the Lower East Side, exploring places that were once as vibrant and tumultuous as Midtown Manhattan. [1]

Derived terms

Translations

Coordinate terms

• circulatory system

Further reading

• aorta on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aortes)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /????.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /???r.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a???.ta/

Noun

aorta f (plural aortes)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Related terms

• aòrtic

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aorta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a???r.ta?/
• Hyphenation: aor?ta

Noun

aorta f (plural aorta's)

1. aorta

Derived terms

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Related terms

• aórtico

Interlingua

Noun

aorta (plural aortas)

1. aorta

Related terms

• aortic

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta m (genitive singular aorta, nominative plural aortaí)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "aorta" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “aorta” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “aorta” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aorte)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aortico

Anagrams

• arato, orata

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”). Medieval Latin; compare the Classical borrowing of the same as averta.

Alternative forms

• aort?, adorta

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?or.ta/, [ä??rt?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?or.ta/, [???rt??]

Noun

aorta f (genitive aortae); first declension

1. aorta

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Latvian

Etymology

Via other European languages, ultimately borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aorta f (4th declension)

1. (anatomy) aorta (the main artery of the circulatory system, responsible for carrying the blood from the heart to the rest of the body except the lungs)

Declension

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??r.ta/

Noun

aorta f

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

Related terms

• aortalny

Further reading

• aorta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta (great artery)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?rta/
• Hyphenation: a?or?ta

Noun

à?rta f (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. (anatomy) aorta

   Antonym: vena

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “to lift, raise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?o?ta/, [a?o?.t?a]

Noun

aorta f (plural aortas)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Derived terms

• aórtico

Further reading

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

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta c

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

Uzbek

Etymology

From Russian ?????? (aórta), from Ancient Greek ????? (aort?, “the arteries springing from the heart”), from ?????? (aorté?), lengthened form of ????? (aeír?, “I lift, raise”).

Noun

aorta (plural aortalar)

1. (anatomy) aorta

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• wayn (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin v?na (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See v?na for more. Displaced native edre, from ?dre (whence edder).

Pronunciation

• enPR: v?n, IPA^(key): /ve?n/
• Homophones: vain, vane
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

vein (plural veins)

1. (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
2. (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
3. (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
4. (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
5. A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
   1. (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
6. (figuratively) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue

     He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.

7. (figuratively) A style, tendency, or quality.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Truth

     certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins

   • 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands

     Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

8. A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
   • I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

Related terms

• in the same vein
• veined
• veinless
• veinlet
• veinlike
• veinstone
• veiny
• venation
• venous
• blue-veined cheese
• deep vein thrombosis
• pulmonary vein
• varicose vein

Translations

Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)

1. To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
   • 1853, Henry William Herbert, The Roman Traitor, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, Volume II, Chapter 18, p. 204,^[1]

     […] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]

   • 1920, Melville Davisson Post, The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, Chapter 14,^[2]

     “We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

See also

• artery
• blood vessel
• capillary
• circulatory system
• phlebitis
• vena cava

Further reading

• vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• vein in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vein in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vein at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Vien, Vine, nevi, vine

Estonian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin v?num. Doublet of viin.

Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)

1. wine

Declension

Derived terms

• punane vein
• valge vein

Finnish

Verb

vein

1. first-person singular indicative past of viedä

Anagrams

• evin, vien

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin v?num, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh?nom.

Noun

vein m (plural veins)

1. wine

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from veina (“to wail”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vei?n/
• Rhymes: -ei?n

Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)

1. wail, lament

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin v?nus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

Adjective

vein

1. vain (worthless, useless)
2. vain (futile, ineffectual)
3. unfounded, false, misleading
4. (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

Alternative forms

• veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

Descendants

• English: vain
• Scots: vane, vain, vaine

Noun

vein (uncountable)

1. something that is worthless or futile
2. idleness, triviality

Alternative forms

• weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

Descendants

• English: vain

References

• “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

vein (plural veines)

1. Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

Etymology 3

Adverb

vein

1. Alternative form of fain