different between eviscerate vs viscus

English

Etymology

From Latin ?viscer?tus, past participle of ?viscer?re (“to disembowel”), from e- (“out”) +? viscera (“bowels”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v?s???e?t/

Verb

eviscerate (third-person singular simple present eviscerates, present participle eviscerating, simple past and past participle eviscerated)

1. (transitive) To disembowel, to remove the viscera.
2. (transitive) To destroy or make ineffectual or meaningless.
3. (transitive) To elicit the essence of.
4. (transitive, surgery) To remove a bodily organ or its contents.
5. (intransitive, of viscera) To protrude through a surgical incision.

Synonyms

• exenterate

Derived terms

• evisceration
• eviscerator

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tea service

Italian

Verb

eviscerate

1. inflection of eviscerare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?.u?is.ke?ra?.te/, [e?u??s?k???ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.vi.?e?ra.te/, [?vi??????t??]

Participle

?viscer?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?viscer?tus

English

Etymology

From New Latin, from Latin viscus (“any internal organ of the body”), perhaps akin to English viscid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?sk?s/
• Homophone: viscous
• Rhymes: -?sk?s

Noun

viscus (plural viscera)

1. (anatomy) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
2. (anatomy, specifically) The intestines.

Synonyms

• entrails
• innards
• intestines
• offal

Derived terms

• eviscerate
• visceral

Translations

See also

• viscus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• viscous

References

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

Latin

Etymology

Of unclear origin; possibly Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to turn, rotate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?is.kus/, [?u??s?k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vis.kus/, [?viskus]

Noun

viscus n (genitive visceris); third declension

1. Any internal organ of the body.
2. (anatomy) entrails, viscera

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• viscer?lis

Related terms

• viscum

Descendants

• ? English: viscera
• ? French: viscères
• Portuguese: víscera

References

Further reading

• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viscus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viscus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, ?ISBN