different between blindspot vs fovea

English

Etymology

blind +? spot.

Noun

blindspot (plural blindspots)

1. Alternative form of blind spot

English

Etymology

From Latin fovea (“ditch, pit”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??.vi.?/
• Rhymes: -??vi?

Noun

fovea (plural foveas or foveae or foveæ)

1. (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
2. (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

Derived terms

• foveate
• parafoveal
• postfoveal
• pseudofovea

Related terms

• foveal

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?e?/, [?fo??e??]
• Rhymes: -o?e?
• Syllabification: fo?ve?a

Noun

fovea

1. (anatomy) fovea

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fovea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?.ve.a/

Noun

fovea f (plural fovee)

1. fovea

   Synonym: fossetta

Derived terms

• foveale

Further reading

• fovea in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *b?ow- (“pit, hole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo.u?e.a/, [?f?u?eä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.ve.a/, [?f??v??]

Noun

fovea f (genitive foveae); first declension

1. pit, hole in the ground
2. snare, pitfall

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• fove?lis (Renaissance Latin)

Descendants

References

• f?v?a in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 1. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 2. FOVEA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fovea in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• f?v?a in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 684/2
• “fouea” on page 729/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) , “fovea”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 450/1