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fetus
English
Alternative forms
- (UK) foetus
- (UK, rare) fœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) phoetus, phœtus
- (obsolete, erroneous) faetus, fætus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?tus (“offspring”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?t?s/
- Rhymes: -i?t?s
Noun
fetus (plural fetuses or (hypercorrect) feti or (misconstructed) fetii)
- (Australia, Canada, US) An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
- 1963, John W Choate, Henry A. Thiede, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Transcript, Volume 2
- (Australia, Canada, US) A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
- The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
Usage notes
- The form fetus is the primary spelling in the United States, Canada, Australia, and in the scientific community, whereas foetus is still commonly used in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth nations.
Derived terms
- fetal
Translations
See also
- embryo
References
- Health Online
Anagrams
- EF-Tus, UTFSE, fuets
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin f?tus, attested from circa 1900.
Noun
fetus m (plural fetus)
- fetus
Related terms
- fetal
References
Further reading
- “fetus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “fetus” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “fetus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Latin
Alternative forms
- foetus
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)-, see also Sanskrit ???? (dhayati), Avestan ????????????????????? (da?nu), Old Armenian ???? (diem), Lithuanian ž?sti and Old Church Slavonic ????? (doiti).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?fe?.tus/, [?fe?t??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fe.tus/, [?f??t?us]
Adjective
f?tus (feminine f?ta, neuter f?tum); first/second-declension adjective
- pregnant, full of young
- fruitful, productive
- youthful, young
- of one who has recently given birth; nursing
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Noun
f?tus m (genitive f?t?s); fourth declension
- A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
- Offspring, young, progeny.
- Fruit, produce.
- (figuratively) Growth, production.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Related terms
Descendants
References
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fetus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin foetus
Noun
fetus m (plural fetu?i)
- fetus
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??tus/
- Hyphenation: fe?tus
Noun
fétus m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- fetus
Declension
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feticide
English
Alternative forms
- foeticide
Etymology
fetus +? -cide or fetus +? -icide, from French -cide, from Latin -cida (“cutter, killer”), from -cid (combining form of caed? (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”) (used for form agent nouns).
Noun
feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)
- An abortion, specifically, the killing of a fetus. [from 19th century]
- 1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209:
- Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.
- 1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209:
- One who kills a fetus.
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