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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)

1. (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.

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)

1. 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

1. pregnant, full of young
2. fruitful, productive
3. youthful, young
4. 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

1. A bearing, birth, bringing forth.
2. Offspring, young, progeny.
3. Fruit, produce.
4. (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)

1. fetus

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??tus/
• Hyphenation: fe?tus

Noun

fétus m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. fetus

Declension