different between cervix vs crevice

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerv?x (“neck”), see below.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??.v?ks/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?.v?ks/

Noun

cervix (plural cervixes or cervices)

1. (anatomy) The neck
2. The necklike portion of any part, as of the womb.
3. The lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.

Derived terms

• cervical
• paracervix

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cerv?x, see below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?r.v?ks/
• Hyphenation: cer?vix

Noun

cervix m (plural cervixen or cervices, diminutive cervixje n)

1. neck
2. The cervix between the uterus and the vagina.

Synonyms

• (neck): nek, hals
• (uterus portion): baarmoederhals

Derived terms

• cervicaal

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?erh?- (“the head”) (compare cerebrum) and *weyk- (“to curve, bend”) (compare vinci?), literally “where the head turns”.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ker.u?i?ks/, [?k?ru?i?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?t??er.viks/, [?t???rviks]

Noun

cerv?x f (genitive cerv?cis); third declension

1. (anatomy, zootomy) neck, nape

   Synonym: collum

2. (figuratively)
   1. great burden, danger (from the figure taken from bearing the yoke)
   2. boldness, headstrong behavior
3. (transferred sense) (of an object) neck

Inflection

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• cervix in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cervix in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cervix in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cervix in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

From French cérvix

Noun

cervix n (uncountable)

1. cervix

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepare (“to break, burst, crack”). Doublet of crevasse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k??v?s/

Noun

crevice (plural crevices)

1. A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Mariana

     The mouse, / Behind the mouldering wainscot, shrieked, / Or from the crevice peer'd about.

   • 16 March, 1926, Virginia Woolf, letter to V. Sackville-West

     I can't tell you how urbane and sprightly the old poll parrot was; and […] not a pocket, not a crevice, of pomp, humbug, respectability in him: he was fresh as a daisy.

Translations

Verb

crevice (third-person singular simple present crevices, present participle crevicing, simple past and past participle creviced)

1. To crack; to flaw.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir H. Wotton to this entry?)

References

• crevice in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• crevice in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• crevice at OneLook Dictionary Search

Old French

Alternative forms

• crevez, crevis, crevesce, creveche, creveis, escrevise, escreveice, escreviche

Etymology

From either Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *greb?-, *gereb?- (“to scratch, crawl”), or from Old High German krebiz (“edible crustacean, crab”) (German Krebs (“crab”)), from the same source. Cognate with Middle Low German kr?vet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”).

Noun

crevice f (oblique plural crevices, nominative singular crevice, nominative plural crevices)

1. crayfish, crawfish

Descendants

• Middle French: escrevice, escrevisse, escrevisce, crevis, creviche, crevice
  • French: écrevisse
• ? Middle Dutch: crevetse
• ? Middle English: crevis, crevyse, creuez, crevez, crevise, creveys, crevesse, krevys
  • English: crevis; crayfish, crawfish (influenced by fish)