different between dorsal vs pessulus

English

Etymology

From Middle English dorsal, dorsale, from Medieval Latin dors?lis (“of or relating to the back”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d??s?l/
• Rhymes: -??(?)s?l

Adjective

dorsal (comparative more dorsal, superlative most dorsal)

1. (anatomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.
2. (of a knife) Having only one sharp side.
3. (anatomy) Relating to the top surface of the foot or hand.
4. (linguistics, of a sound) Produced using the dorsum of the tongue.
5. (botany) Relating to the surface naturally inferior, as of a leaf.
6. (botany) Relating to the surface naturally superior, as of a creeping hepatic moss.

Antonyms

• ventral

Coordinate terms

• (human anatomy direction adjectives) anterior,? distal,? dorsal,? lateral,? medial,? posterior,? proximal,? ventral ^{(Category: en:Medicine) [edit]}
• (linguistics): labial, coronal, radical, laryngeal

Derived terms

• dorsal fin
• dorsally
• dorsal root
• lumbodorsal

Related terms

• endorse, indorse

Translations

Noun

dorsal (plural dorsals)

1. (art) A hanging, usually of rich stuff, at the back of a throne, altar, etc.

1. In snakes, any of the longitudinal series of plates that encircle the body, excluding the ventral scales.
2. (linguistics) A sound produced using the dorsum of the tongue.

Anagrams

• lardos

Catalan

Adjective

dorsal (masculine and feminine plural dorsals)

1. dorsal

Derived terms

• aleta dorsal

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin dorsum with adjective-forming suffix -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??.sal/

Adjective

dorsal (feminine singular dorsale, masculine plural dorsaux, feminine plural dorsales)

1. dorsal

Descendants

• ? Dutch: dorsaal

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???za?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

dorsal (not comparable)

1. dorsal

Declension

Interlingua

Adjective

dorsal (not comparable)

1. dorsal

Portuguese

Adjective

dorsal m or f (plural dorsais, comparable)

1. (anatomy) dorsal (of the back)
2. (anatomy) dorsal (of the top surface of a hand or foot)

Romanian

Etymology

From French dorsal

Adjective

dorsal m or n (feminine singular dorsal?, masculine plural dorsali, feminine and neuter plural dorsale)

1. dorsal

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin dors?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do??sal/, [d?o??sal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

dorsal (plural dorsales)

1. (anatomy) dorsal

Derived terms

• aleta dorsal
• espina dorsal
• toracodorsal

Noun

dorsal m (plural dorsales)

1. ridge

Derived terms

• dorsal ancho

Related terms

• dorso

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Latin, a bolt.

Noun

pessulus (plural pessuli)

1. (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

Latin

Alternative forms

• pessula

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (pássalos), from Proto-Indo-European *peh??- (whence pang?). See also rep?gulum.

Noun

pessulus m (genitive pessul?); second declension

1. a bolt (of a door)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *pestulus, *pestellus
  • Asturian: piesllu, priesllu
  • Galician: pecho
  • Portuguese: pestilo
  • Spanish: pestillo

References

• pessulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pessulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pessulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pessulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pessulus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin